“Meanwhile, the truth of the matter is we the American people will end up paying for the wall though higher tariffs and prices on imported goods.”
Not true. Raise tariffs, lower taxes.
Tariffs are patriotic.
Tariffs, and ONLY tariffs, are supposed to be the primary source of all fedgov revenue.
George Washington passed a tariff on British Shipping, it spurred the greatest ship building boom the US has ever seen.
Tariffs tax the many to support the few. Which few? Politicians decide. It’s equivalent to a dollar devaluation and decrease in living standard.
And it we don’t have the politicians or government of 1790 anymore.
Tariffs for taxes are fine. Tariffs for a brand new country like Washington’s America are fine.
But tariffs to “protect” the greatest, wealthiest, and strongest nation on earth are STUPID.
No one can answer how tariffs on air conditioners coming from Mexico will keep Nabisco from moving. They can’t answer it because there is no answer. Tariffs have NOTHING to do with why companies are fleeing America. Tariffs never were nor never will be the answer because tariffs do not address the CAUSE of business fleeing America to begin with which is THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
What drives business elsewhere are higher costs (and, therefore, higher prices, and, therefore, lower demand) forced on business by federal minimum wage, federal regulations, federal protection of unions, and high federal taxes. Get rid of those things, and America will be in a competitive position with the rest of the world just like she used to be before the feds got their ugly mitts on our economy.
That would be easy if government were restricted to the size, scope, power and cost actually authorized in the Constitution.