To: 4ConservativeJustices
Do you think that the importer simply absorbs the tariffs out of the kindness of their heart? Careful. It is Wlat you are talking to...the same Wlat who declared yesterday that "a tariff is not a tax,"
...which in Walt-speak means that a tariff is defined as something that is necessary to sustain the precious from losing its power and fading into obscurity.
To: GOPcapitalist
Somewhere in his mind a rational thought is waiting to escape. What's a few more years?
83 posted on
02/26/2003 9:14:23 PM PST by
4CJ
('No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.' - Alexander Hamilton)
To: GOPcapitalist
Careful. It is Wlat you are talking to...the same Wlat who declared yesterday that "a tariff is not a tax," A tariff is not a tax.
A LAW DICTIONARY
by John Bouvier, Revised Sixth Edition, 1856:
TARIFF. Customs, duties, toll. or tribute payable upon merchandise to the general government is called tariff; the rate of customs, &c. also bears this name and the list of articles liable to duties is also called the tariff. 2. For the tariff of duties imposed on the importation of foreign merchandise into the United States.
Walt
96 posted on
02/27/2003 5:17:39 AM PST by
WhiskeyPapa
(Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
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