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To: Cringing Negativism Network

>>Taxes need to be higher on imports.<<

Tariff wars have always ended badly for everyone.

They don’t work.

Next idea?


8 posted on 04/06/2013 9:31:48 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
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To: freedumb2003

Tariffs funded the USA for the first 80 years of existence. President Washington signed first tariff act in 1790. I would rather pay a duty on imports than an income tax. A tariff would not be that high as slave coolie labor only “saves” about 5% of the retail price anyway. The social damage to the US is incalculable.


13 posted on 04/06/2013 9:42:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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