[central_va]

Consumption based taxes are far superior to the income tax. This fact alone justifies a tariff. Spending needs to be controlled but revenue generation is just as important. The two are not really related. Income and spending are two different sides of the fiscal coin.

Nothing you have posted refutes the fact that a tariff is needed now more than ever. Patriotism has NOTHING to do with it just like Patriotism has nothing to do with income taxes. It makes sound fiscal and economic sense IN EVERY WAY.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Nothing you have posted refutes the fact that a tariff will not be a magic bullet.

[HiTech RedNeck]

What’s more, the patriotism cancer doesn’t even need a tariff cure, however useful it may prove. I go back to even deeper roots here.

And too-tight trade (as in the old days when the Feds ran on nothing but tariffs) forgets that there is a world full of things that we can’t always come up with in the USA. Wise balance is always a good rule.