[Destro]

With a an attitude like, staytrue that we may well be the next Brazil. A very small top tier smart enough to adopt, no middle class of any worthy size and the vast poor working service jobs that make them wage slaves.

But isolation and trade barriers is not the answer.

[sixmil]

But isolation and trade barriers is not the answer.

What is? This is not isolation or trade barriers IMO, unless you mean isolating ourselves from the WTO. A 10-15% tariff (Pat's plan) or a floating rate to balance trade (my plan) could hardly be considered a barrier with resepect to other taxes. Gasoline - 100%, Sales - 9%, Income - 25%, Capital Gains - 30%, Cigarettes - ?