A response to tariffs is to build plants in the country imposing the tariffs.
Also, a tariff taxes everyone equally and is virtually invisible. So, who pays no taxes in America?
Don’t you think they should have some skin in the game?
America had no income tax in those years, but a graduated tax that is so graduated that half the country isn’t paying anything is an abomination for a few reasons. The most important is that the non-taxed in our era take a lot and provide very little.
Also, as a matter of national security, a nation should be self sufficient. All the way from heavy metals to shirts and shorts, a nation should be self-sufficient. To do otherwise is eventually to invite attack and overthrow.
a response to tariffs is whatever destroys the tariffs. building a plant in the country imposing the tariffs simply because of the tariffs is utter capitulation.
“Also, a tariff taxes everyone equally and is virtually invisible. So, who pays no taxes in America?”
Tariffs are like a national sales tax.
Everyone pays tax on what they use/buy, instead of about 40% of us carrying the tax load via income taxes. If you don’t buy something with a tariff, it doesn’t cost you. Income taxes are a mill stone around the necks of many of us.