@silverdreamfilm wrote:
"A "tax" in the way the left has been abusing the term is compulsory, you don't have a choice. A tariff, by contrast, can be avoided by simply not buying the tariffed good (again, reference the "Levi's in Cambodia or Ford Mustangs in the UK). There is nothing compulsory involved in tariffed goods. You just don't buy them if you don't want to pay that "tax". If anything, a tariff is like an excise tax. You have the choice to buy booze or cigarettes. If you don't want to pay that tax, you don't buy those goods. Unlike income tax, or other compulsory taxes (TRUE taxes), you don't go to jail if you don't pay these. You just don't buy the goods, which is exactly what other countries have done".
Yes, you are right... Butt when 49-50% of toilet paper the US imports is from Canada, I guess you don't have to wipe your a*s 50% of the time.
And it's not just butt wipes - a great many tariffed goods are not exactly negotiable, either. A lot of parts are made in China, Mexico, Canada that go into manufacturing here. The pharmaceutical industry has a lot of product made in China (and Trump has said he's going to raise tariffs on pharmaceutical products). Cars made here may jump thousands of dollars, for instance. A good many finished products are imported from China (something like 60+%).
Trying to tool up in this country for major manufacturing takes an average of about three years, and a great deal of these factories will be automated. Prices will go up. This entire scheme has not been thought through.
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