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April 22, 2005

Some thoughts vis a vis taxes

Every spring talk turns to income taxes and how the majority of us hate 'em. Some politicians will actually talk "reform" and some have tiptoed into the "scrap it and start from scratch arena." From Flat Tax to Fair Tax to replacing it completely with VAT or consumption taxes, there is one thing I have not heard on the subject.

Duties and tariffs.

Under section 8 of the Constitution, the Congress has the power to levy duties and tariffs and long before the income tax, that was how the Federal government raised the money for itself.

Not only do I believe that duties and tariffs be uniformly enforced against all foreign goods imported into this nation from foreign business entities, now is the time to impose it across the board against all goods imported into this country, even if the company is American. In other words, when Home Depot is having nailboards manufactured in China, each one of them should have a duty levied against it before it ends up on the shelf in Los Angeles.

Ditto foriegn service-call centers.

Posted by Darleen at April 22, 2005 07:07 AM

Comments

Good idea. But that is actually what the Fair Tax (consumption tax) does. Please check it out at http://www.fairtax.org . You can also read my blog about the Fair Tax at http://saintknowitall.blogspot.com/2005/04/fair-tax-fairtax-act-consumption-tax.html

Posted by: Saintknowitall at April 22, 2005 08:43 PM

Completely OT, but perhaps the former theater geek will permit:

We won Best Actor and Best Actress in our Region and advanced to State. Woo-hoo! Go, Mustangs!

the Propmistress' Mom

Posted by: Sal at April 23, 2005 11:55 AM