"Border Tax". A euphemism for tariff. I listened to some talking head on Fox News spend five minutes explaining why Trump's proposed "border tax" was not a tariff. Tariffs have been a hot subject thru out American history. And the history books all use the word tariff. We are doing our children a disservice to introduce a new buzz phrase for an old old concept.
Could it be that a century of free trade agitation has made people think that tariff's are bad for them?
In real life, tariffs are good for domestic makers of stuff, for obvious reasons. Tariffs are bad for everyone else because they have to pay more for stuff. Everyone else is more people than the makers (both labor and company) of any one kind of stuff. Since this is a democracy, it is reasonable to support free trade since more people benefit from a free trade regime.
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