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To: Orbiting_Rosie's_Head
You postulated that tariffs would no longer work for our nation. THAT is what I asked you to prove. Your statement (in case you forgot):

You need to prove that Tariffs WOULD work. They won't.
128 posted on 03/04/2004 11:49:39 AM PST by Cronos (W2K4!)
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To: Cronos
You need to prove that Tariffs WOULD work. They won't.

Tariffs to equalize labor content, and the elimination of taxpayer funded business failure insurance, will remove the incentive to move jobs overseas. As I have stated on other threads, I advocate the complete elimination of all forms of income, payroll, and capital formation taxes, to be replaced with sales taxes and tariffs. That is the system we had at the founding, and it worked. I claim that it will work now because it was based on wisdom then, and it worked then. In other words, I draw conclusions based on empirical evidence, and I am not affraid to try something that has been shown to work in the past. You claim that it won't work because now times are different. I could use that logic to all sorts of crazy ends, repeal 2nd ammendment, etc.

I prefer to refer to the founders for an economical model, rather than letting the WTO decide what it is going to be.

134 posted on 03/04/2004 1:15:19 PM PST by Orbiting_Rosie's_Head
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