You know I have a trade imbalance with the supermarket - their goods keep comming to my house and noting I ever make goes back to the supoermarket. Hmmm...
I got it!!! Maybe if we put higher taxes on supermarket food, my trade imbalance will improve!!
Those higher taxes you pay for food will allow the grocery store to pay higher wages. Think of the prosperity that will ensue if we only tax food highly enough.
I know that little ditty made sense to you, but I don’t see it applying to international trade, trillions in economic activity that has left our nation, and tens of millions of people who have lost their jobs.