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Your lack of insight makes me question if you're really a lawyer. Did you get your degree online?
Well, my “lack of insight” is shared almost universally by attendees at ALI-ABA tax conferences, so I’m not sure what your point, if any, is.
The point is tariffs will raise prices on everyone, while ending income taxes will benefit only those who make enough living to pay taxes. The poorest of the poor, and the lowest wage earners, not to mention much of the middle class, will get the shock of higher prices - significantly higher prices - while only the comfortable will enjoy the tax breaks. But, hell, those are typically black and brown skinned people, aren't they? So of course you love the idea, as utterly stupid as it is. Plus, as discussed before the idea of the tariffs is to lower imports in order to "save" American manufacturing. But when imports are lowered so is the income from the import tariffs. Where's Orange-man-genius going to make up the shortfall? He's curiously mum on that little tidbit because he's too stupid to know it.
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Would you not enjoy the tax breaks? Are you one of these non taxpayers who isn’t paying his fair share?
You make a very good point for those I earlier described as “comfortable.” But no amount of tax savings for the comfortable that is redirected into investment to create jobs is going to benefit those that are not comfortable, not to a degree that would be helpful. Trump’s plan is as ridiculously unworkable as the left’s joy-toy MMT. As for making American manufacturers more competitive, that’s what competition is for. And tariffs destroy competition. Government Industrial Policy, which would be the end game of Trump’s tariff policy is a MAGA version of big government interference in the workings of a free market, starting out as a soft fascism which has only one way to go, and it ain’t the good way.
For goodness sake I’m an anarcho-capitalist. I despise every tax of every kind. And that includes tariffs. Nothing would make me happier than having the income tax abolished. Trump’s plan just shifts the tyranny around and doesn’t change a thing that matters. The inflation it would cause may very well make your personal situation worse, not better. And then he will tell you what he told the Midwest farmers and small manufacturers his tariffs destroyed when he was president: he’ll thank you for your patriotic sacrifice.
Oh I get it. Kind of like a “sovereign citizen”, or common idiot.
Nope, you don’t get it at all. It’s an entire wing of philosophical libertarian thought that spans centuries. But it is easy to see why someone with your limited political worldview would know nothing about it.
There will always be tyranny especially if your an anarchist. At this point shifting the tyranny would be a good thing. Keep shifting it is the only way to check it. Tyranny held too long will cripple any society. Income tax tyranny needs a change as it has become what it naturally will become, another means of control. When you switch off this tyranny it will be replaced with another tyranny. Eventually the new tyranny will need replacing as well.
No, free trade does not need to be a two way street, at least not in the manner you describe. Free trade just needs to be a mutual exchange between willing parties, usually where both parties get something they desire more than what they have. When a government steps in to regulate the exchange it instantly is no longer free trade. Government is insatiable in its quest to swallow power at the expense of liberty. And it is very clever at tricking people into swapping their liberty for the government’s “protection.”
Spoken like a true socialist! Give me power, It’ll be painful but trust me I know whst’s best for you even when it brings you pain but not me.
Are you kidding. I'm in the pain range. It will hurt me the most.
