Discussion: GOP Tax Plan In Trouble As Republicans Increasingly Reject Import Tax

Depends on which Republican you ask.

Republican #1 is too incurious to ponder the question. Republican #2 thinks we’ll just close the border and trade among ourselves.

Republican #3 gambles that self imposed chaos will be good for Republican #3.

You bet it is!!

It’s even cheaper when things are mailed (at least from China to the US) because there are agreements whereby the US postal system effectively subsidizes chinese shippers. Originally designed so that someone in China could send a letter to someone in the US without using up a month’s salary, but since then nicely exploited as a loophole. (Basically all the USPS gets is a cut of what the chinese post office charges to send something, rather than what it would charge to mail something from the port of entry to the destination.)

But the larger story here is mostly crap. The GOP isn’t doing tax “reform” because none of their various donors will agree to pay more taxes. So instead they just do a cut paid for by killing medicaid clients with a side of smoke and mirrors.

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Ahhum! That’s Exalted Most High Job Creators to you, lib!