You’ve walked the lie back a little, Now how about the truth (contrary to popular belief it doesn’t hurt).
It needs to be reintroduced in the Canadian Parliament after elections, since all pending legislation is tossed when the current Parliament was dissolved.
Nor is it “dead” in the U.S. Congress, albeit it has taken a back seat due to the focus on impeachment.
You can’t give an example, in the history of the world, of a county using tariffs to bring a cheater around?
That’s interesting.
We used them against Japan in the seventies to bring them around.
As a result most of the vehicles they sell in the US are also now made in the US.
Protectionism greatly helped Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
It also helped the USA. Prior to about 1970.
Thanks
“Free Trade” by and large is about as unequal a playing field as there could be.
And is now.
This is ■■■■■■■ easy…if it is manufactured producing more pollution than what it would generate if manufactured here in the US, it shouldn’t be allowed to be sold in the US. A lot of production would return to the US and there’d be no need for tariffs. BAM…ezpz. The problem is…our government created this. Then as China pollutes, our same government that created this problem, wants to preach about man made global warming.
which tarriffs and to what purpose?
For example, our founding fathers taxed at our water’s edge and had foreigners paying for the privilege of doing business on America soil! What a novel idea … an America first policy!
Madison sums up our founding father’s trade policy as follows during the creation of our Nations’ first revenue raising Act
“…a national revenue must be obtained; but the system must be such a one, that, while it secures the object of revenue it shall not be oppressive to our constituents.”
The Act went on to tax specifically chosen imported articles and not one dime was raised by taxing American domestic manufacturers, the working man’s wage, or the returns on invested capital ___ all of which contributed enormously to America becoming the economic marvel of the world!
It should also be noted the Act was signed by George Washington on July 4th, 1789, as if to give England a second notice of America’s independence while exercising her power to tax foreign imports in order to fill our national treasury.
In addition to imposing a specific amount of tax on specifically chosen articles imported, our founding fathers imposed an across-the-board tax on imports which was higher for imports arriving in foreign owned foreign built vessels, and discounted the tax for imports arriving in American owned American built ships:
“…a discount of ten percent on all duties imposed by this Act shall be allowed on such goods, wares, and merchandise as shall be imported in vessels built in the United States, and wholly the property of a citizen or citizens thereof.” SEE: An Act imposing duties on Tonnage July 20, 1789
This patriotic use of taxing at our water’s edge not only filled our national treasury, but gave American ship builders a hometown advantage and predictably resulted in America’s ship building industry to flourish and America’s merchant marine to become the most powerful on the face of the planet. Unfortunately, last time I visited the docks in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen area, I was very saddened that I could no longer read the names on the docked ships as they all seemed to be foreign owned foreign built vessels…an irrefutable sign of America’s decline traceable to the ravages of our international “free trade crowd” and a traitorous sellout of America’s sovereignty to the highest international bidders by members of Congress and our presidents, past and present!
NOTE: The above can be found in the 1995 Congressional Hearings on REPLACING THE FEDERAL INCOMETAX
