I like how you responded to: "The founding fathers instituted tariffs at an average amount of 15 percent" and then keep straight on with the "you're a socialist! You're an illiterate!" crap. I guess you're smarter than the people who founded this country, though I tend to think that what worked from the founding of the nation until the socialistic income tax was working quite fine without your globalist free trade crap that ended the British empire.
Well, you certainly are an economic illiterate.
And clearly a protectionist, you admit as much and you think it’s really, really smart stuff. According to you, the British empire would have survived to this day with a few more tariffs and a little less of that nasty free world trade.
And tariffs should work forever, since that’s what we started with as a system of taxation.
Ya know, tariffs are a very blunt tax instrument, a favorite of Luddites and proponents of mercantilism everywhere, but I understand that you absolutely love and adore tariffs.
If you want to go with a consumption tax, I would agree with you — impose an X% tax on all consumption, regardless of the source of the product — and eliminate all income taxes and tariffs.
But that’s not what you want. You want protectionist tariffs in all their rabble-rousing and revenue-raising glory. Until they impoverish everyone, everywhere.
Say, what do you think of the new Florida tariff on Georgia peaches?
And the retaliatory Georgia tariff on Florida oranges?
And the other 50,000 tariffs on interstate trade items that the 50 state legislatures dreamed up after the union dissolved?
Inquiring minds want to know what a protectionist from the 1800s thinks.