Republicans are traditionally believed to be conservative financially, aren't they? But you know what's not conservative? ...further extortion of consumers via added "fees" like tariffs on goods.
We are far away from any discussion of truly free markets or limited government, this is the opposite direction of that.
These actions of tariffs directly contradict those principles.
This is unnecessary infringement once again from the state in the economy, it's another variation of their intervention that will work to raise prices for consumers.
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This only doesn't make sense to you because you are thinking...
elected governments have to be respected regardless of their decisions they are in power till the end of their period
I gave that up when Reagan preached the virtues of small government and doubled the national debt.
Prior to the Civil War tariffs were the sole means of funding government. Only thereafter did income taxes become the primary parastitic sustenance of government. The debates of the Grant, Garfield, and Arthur administrations reveal that the concerns of the day revolved around protected industries and the impact on them of reducing tariffs.
Tariffs are parasitic on society no less than are income taxes, but are far more easily avoided by selective consumption, which is probably why we suffer direct personal taxation on our incomes today, that are far more difficult to avoid.
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