Posted on 05/22/2016 10:35:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tariffs are simply a revenue scheme which enriches unions, crony capitalists, and fascists governments. They are a band aid to cover self inflicted wounds.
It is best, not better, for the citizens to have the very smallest government feasible, if citizens value their freedom and property. The wise Madison; who had the temperament of the Athenian Greeks; told us so.
Since the ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913, which permitted the substitution of Income Taxes for Tariffs; has government become smaller???
Arguing that Tariffs are better for a nation than Income Taxes is selfish nonsense, as both distort the cost of the factors of production, severely harming the flow of trade and more critically, the ideas that come along w/them.
A linchpin of personal freedom is economic freedom.
I confess, I’m not following you. The strictures on coke plants spring from the environmentalism fraud. One simply builds coke plants a necessary. It will take reform of many attitudes. I think the American people are finally waking up to the fact that the economic policies of the last 60 years have destroyed a once viable economy and built up our enemies.
$505,000,000,000 flowing in one direction EVERY YEAR is stupid, asinine, and extremely dumb. China can export all they want to Walmart, so long as US manufacturers can export to China without restrictions, road blocks, and other subtle ways to impede imports.
Tariffs can be applied with judgement. See Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the economist Friedrich List
Fixed it for ya.
Tariffs can be applied with judgement. See Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the economist Friedrich List
This speaks to the positive effects of tariffs limiting Federal income. You have a logic problem.
He also taxed whiskey and used government troops to impose the tax.
Seems all protectionist love to tax and control.
Reagan did a good job. He was not reflexively anti-trade but neither did he enthusiastically restrict our liberties to earn and spend our capital the way we see fit. He tore down some trade barriers and erected others.
You cannot escape the fact that if you restrict imports on, say Chinese steel, you create rent seeking by unions and the federal Governemt. Neither of those parties give a hoot about liberty.
No one says “restrict imports.” I did say even the price differential caused by cheap labor in foreign countries.
One does not build coke plants in the US, see “war on coal”, Those that are still operating are targeted for closure and have sky high operating costs.
China is not the problem. While we are busy driving coal to extinction their are embracing it. Hillary and Obamah want the complete deindustrilization of the US in order to defund the US middle class.China and tariffs are deliberate misdirection to avoid acknowledging that we are powerless to stop them from doing it.
So instead we will join them in taxing and controlling businesses.
We have unemployment and crime costs that are accentuated by companies moving out of the country. US businesses would profit more by employing citizens in my world, while countries like China that subsidize their exports while tariffing our imports (and getting 50% of all US businesses in China with their intellectual property) would profit more under your approach.
We see the world differently, it appears, save for the need to reduce government.
More words of “wisdom” from the free traitors. This is the same gang that gave us nafta and gatt. And a destroyed industrial base.
I like tariffs just fine. I like antidumping tariffs even moar.
Only a real douche disparages George Washington.
The government passes a law that says you may not import unless you pay an extra e,g, 20%. If you do not pay the 20% you will go to jail.
Sounds like tariffs are restrictions. If tariffs do not cause a decrease in imports, that is restrict them from coming in, then what is they are supposed to do? Simply raise revenue?
No political leader is above reproach or criticism not even Reagan. Deify them if you wish but they were smart enough not to do so. The whiskey tax was hideous and tyrannical. Not everything Washington did was good.
Signing the Tariff Act of 1789 was a real good thing.
What a hyperbolic idiot you are. If an importer cannot or refuses to pay the tariff then the cargo is impounded and sold at auction NOBODY GOES TO JAIL.
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