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Because you are a thief and leech
Because I want to trade value for value? Because I'd rather have a car that works than a Dodge? You're the one prattling about government provided retirement, medical care, utilities, etc.
This is why you hate tariffs on foreign goods, you don't want to see any of your money spent on this country you selfishly loot and pillage.
No, I hate tariffs because they put my money in the hands of bureaucrats, who squander it 'for my own good'. Maybe you think you don't pay enough taxes, you can always send them another check - they'll find a use for it, trust me. What did I loot again?

First observation is that you seem to hate the Founding Father's wise design to fund the Federal Government. You lie by pretending that tariffs would be an additional tax rather than a replacement tax. Domestic taxes could dramatically fall if replaced by tariffs. Also, since you dislike tariffs as a tax, I would assume that you also dislike the National Retail Sales Tax since it is based on the same grounds with the exception that the NRST penalizes domestic purchases as well as foreign.

Your words are deceptive since you compare the worst American product with the best Japanese product. Of course the 'K' car was far roomier and would make for a better transport for groups of people. Also employed locals who would turn around and spend their money on more locals.

You say that you trade "value for value" but I could say the same thing for those who bring food and drink to the ballpark. The food is cheaper and probably better than what one would get at the stadium, the thing is, the food purchased at the ballpark subsidizes the operating cost of the stadium and the entertainment. When you bring outside food to the game, the revenue per ticket holder is much less than the average, in effect you are having others subsidize your entertainment. Same thing when you import that Datsun, you are having others subsidize the benefits of living here in this country.

You listed a number of things that you have no appreciation for, and I assume that you dislike the medical and retirement provisions, but are ignorant of how the medical and retirement infrastructure actually benefits you. That's OK, because you also express an interest of abandoning this country at the first sign of trouble. Clearly you would be worthless to General George Washington, and would rather go hide in the woods while others made the sacrifice.

I thank you for being honest in your expression of utter selfishness and parasite attitude towards this country and the people who made and still make sacrifices to make this country the best there is. I guess like the locust, as soon as you and your ilk have decimated this country, you will "move south" and continue your enterprise there.

I just wish you would take you anti-American self there now and quit being baggage to the rest of us.

You lie by pretending that tariffs would be an additional tax rather than a replacement tax.

Yeah, there are enough politicians who will cheerfully promise you a domestic tax cut Tuesday in return for a new tax on imports today.

The problem is that they will say, "I didn't mean THIS Tuesday. Or the next one...or the one after that..."

Domestic taxes could dramatically fall if replaced by tariffs.

And they could dramatically fall if the American public went cold turkey on womb-to-tomb nanny-statism, too, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen--asphyxiation is reputed to be an unpleasant way to die.

You lie by pretending that tariffs would be an additional tax rather than a replacement tax.

Repeal the 16th amendment and we can talk some more about the level of tariffs. In 2003 the government collected ~24 billion dollars in tariffs. Do you think we can implement NINE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE percent increase in tariffs to 'replace' the revenue the government seizes from income? Are you further certain people would actually pay that premium and provide money to your welfare state?

Domestic taxes could dramatically fall if replaced by tariffs.

You really have no idea how big the federal government is do you, or the actual scope of imports. Aquaint yourself with the facts THEN form your opinions. We'll all be better served.

Clearly you would be worthless to General George Washington, and would rather go hide in the woods while others made the sacrifice.

Who is fighting for freedom? I realize I'm vastly outnumbered by the socialist in this country. They already threatened me earlier in this thread. General Washington's troops fought against a government seated in a capitol far away, that tried to prevent the people of the colonies from freely trading with the rest of the world.

I just wish you would take you anti-American self there now and quit being baggage to the rest of us.

I'll stay here, and trade value for value. I'll bail when the next FDR stirs up another New Deal, starts compelling industry to follow his every diktat from Washington and bans the holding of a store of value. I'll watch the Soviet style meltdown of the socialism you love to pay taxes for on Dish network.