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1) Why do we tax US production (corporate income tax) and US wages, but not imports (especially since nearly all of our exports are subject to very large VAT taxes among other tariffs). It's the exact opposite of what we should do - it's the same reason hotel taxes are MASSIVE because they are born from non-locals rather than locals even though it discourages visits - it's still better than directly taxing the populace.
2) If we are going to have wage, labor, environmental and other regulatory laws, you should have a tariff on countries that don't have similar ones otherwise you are needlessly hurting US production and still allowing companies to do whatever they want.

Most important will get a sales tax applied when the goods are sold . If you’re the importer your profits will get taxed. If you import raw materials or intermediate goods those will taxed when sold and the income generated will be taxed. All of the people working in jobs that utilize imports, such as appliance makers who import steel, are taxed.

I think we are taxed enough. We should have zero production based taxes which is personal and business income taxes. We should have a very low transaction tax. Everytime a dollar changes hands it should be very very very slightly taxed. This would like a VAT but applied to everything and everyone and at every instance.

We don’t need huge tariffs to protect us from dum bass governemt policies. We just need to get rid of the dum bass policy makers.

Why do we tax US production (corporate income tax) and US wages, but not imports

I define that as pure evil. Anyone defending that is both evil and a traitor.