Explaining Tariffs to the Tax-Crazed

Trump's plan to get rid of income tax and opt for tariffs is the ideal way forward...

Americans seem to love taxes!

Right?

I mean, we have some pretty hefty ones. We have taxes on taxes on taxes. By the time you spend one of your hard-earned dollars, it’s already been taxed at least three times. Once when it goes through income tax, again when you pay sales tax, and then a third time for state taxes.

That’s not even counting social security…

So, how do we tone down the taxes and still manage to dig ourselves out of 35 trillion dollars of debt?

Well, it’s simple actually — we make others pay for it.

Okay, how is that done?

Tariffs.

Term Time!

A Tariff is when you slap a tax on foreign goods. Almost always imports. The idea is that if you’re taking goods into the country that means your currency is flowing out of the country. Less money in the country and more abroad means the value of the dollar holds globally yet there’s less dollars to go around domestically. When there’s less dollars to go around, but the value is still ass, that means wages stagnate.

Similar to GDP, when a country is spending more than it’s making, the logical conclusion is that the country goes bust. So to stop the bleeding of wealth from leaving the country a Tariff serves to discourage people from buying foreign goods, therefore incentivizing people to buy domestic.

But that’s not the whole of the story…

What happens when you tax people in general?

Let’s start small scale.

If a city increases taxes downtown to pay for renovations and put in a new park, museum, or convention center, then it’s only logical that businesses will have to increase their prices to compensate for the loss due to increased taxes. However, when this goes on for too long, and the debt accrued to pay for the renovations is dragging on, then the businesses will start to think about leaving.

Ah, there’s the important bit. Do you see the subtle problem here?

A business doesn’t pay taxes at all if they’ve left for greener pastures.

Let’s say you increase taxes by 10%. Businesses leave. So, to cover the loss in tax revenue needed to pay off the reno-debts, you increase taxes again.

Now it’s 20%. More businesses leave…

Now it’s 30%. Even more businesses leave…

Now it’s 40%. EVEN MORE BUSINESSES LEAVE!!!

Now it’s 50%…

No more business. Industry is dead. No one can afford to maintain the fancy new convention center.

Everything rots.

Now what?

Raise taxes?

Who’s left to raise taxes on?

That’s what has happened to America. Too much spending on “projects” leads to higher taxes leads to businesses leaving leads to lower tax revenue.

Funny how that works, right? The more taxes you levy on people, the less taxes you get in the long run. You can’t squeeze blood from a stone. So, do you see what taxes are for? Taxes should only be increased short-term. If you keep them at those high rates, only ever increasing little bits at a time, then sooner or later you’ll have nothing left to tax.

Anyone who’s played a City Sim game knows what happens when you max out taxes for too long… it’s simple logic, really…

Where do we go from here?

Tariff Time!

Enter Tariffs.

Because we are the primary consumer economy globally, tariffs allow us to reduce taxes now that foreign trade would effectively be funding the government. Everyone wants to sell to us, because we have so much intrinsic wealth. That, and we own the Reserve Currency, but that might not hold, so I digress.

Tariffs also simultaneously encourage businesses to set up domestically instead of overseas utilizing sweat shop workers. Yes, indeed, higher taxes in one county incentivizes slave labor in another. When taxes are high, businesses leave. When they leave, they set up shop in the lowest cost locations, because why wouldn’t they? It’s not like you can stop them, unless you tax their goods coming into your county.

Basically, the lowest cost venues they move to often happen to be the ones most lax on the whole “human rights” thing. The urge to tax the hell out of “rich people” suddenly turns thousands in another country into slave laborers. I mean, any job is better than no job, right?

Right?

How do we stop this?

Tariffs are the way to go.

They always have been.

Why haven’t we utilized them to their fullest capacity and instead decided to double down on suffocatingly high taxes?

Because we’re “afraid” of Isolationism.

Which is the antithesis to our darling Globalism.

See why we haven’t opted for Tariffs? It cuts into the slave driving special interest groups’ bottom line. Investors don’t want to invest domestically when there’s cheap slave labor to exploit.

Globalism regularly involves artificially handicapping one nation so that a lesser nation can “thrive.” At least, that lesser nation’s upper class anyways…

It’s Equity on a global scale, as it were.

Isolationism, in contrast, involves a country being self-sufficient and relying on no foreign trade for its own welfare. It doesn’t work for everyone, but if you have the resources why import it when you don’t have to? If you have coal, you use it. If you have oil, you use it. If you have gold, lithium, cobalt, etc. you USE IT!

Right now we are shipping oil in from half-way across the globe just so we can virtue signal about “keeping our land clean.” Bullshit. It’s a scam. We are being fleeced and prevented from tapping our own resources so that other countries and their “leaders” can benefit on their small portfolio of exportable goods.

All for the sake of “Global Equity.”

It’s a losing formula. Normally you wouldn’t sign “environmental pacts” which handicap you while ensuring little 10-year old Jabari in sub-Saharan Africa goes to the cobalt quarry and his spine tangles like Christmas lights before he sprouts his first beard hair. Not unless you are in service to special interests groups full of genuinely Evil people who want to social engineer everything to benefit themselves.

They’re not just exploiting us, they’re exploiting the nature of business.

You cannot prevent companies, corporations, businesses, and investors from going overseas when you tax the living crap out of them domestically. You cannot punish them any more than you already after cutting their profits in half. You cannot steer them toward an idealistic “greater good” when their only interest is personal growth and returns.

You cannot guilt a cat into taking a bath.

They don’t like the water. That is their nature.

Businesses don’t like taxes. They avoid them at all costs.

It’s the same reason wild animals don’t go on diets.

Because it can only serve towards killing them.

Tariffs force businesses into a corner, where they have no choice but to stay put, otherwise they can kiss buying/selling in your country bye bye. They often celebrate this, because the logistics to ship stuff half-way across the globe unnecessarily is still a pain in the ass. They only put up with it after taxes have priced them out of the domestic markets.

The ideal is low-to-no income taxes, steady flat-rate sales taxes, and Tariffs on goods that compete with your country’s domestic industries and manufacturers. That’s it. That’s all. You should only increase taxes temporarily. If they go on longer than a fiscal year, kiss your industrial sector goodbye. Often the damage done is too scattered to calculate, such that by the time you do it’s too late to stop the mass exodus.

Every city eventually turns into Gary, Indiana…

As for the Globalists — they know full and well what happens when taxes are high.

That’s what they’re counting on.

That’s how they eat out the substance of their enemies.

We are enemies to the Globalists. Their interests are in punishing the strong and exploiting the weak to appear virtuous and compassionate in “aiding” them. Equity, effectively. A vile practice that only leads to one thing…

As we discussed, High Domestic Taxes = Foreign Slave Labor.

One begets the other.

Slave labor ends as soon as you Tariff the hell out of anything that comes out of a slave factory — you know, the ones with the nets to stop the jumpers?

How else do you stop another country from utilizing slave labor? It’s not like you can pass legislation in their country, now can you? No. You have to punish them by not doing business with fiends and monsters who would indenture their fellow man.

This is Trump’s new “tax” plan and why it is ideal to get rid of income tax as soon as possible. At least, as soon as we can without the DeepState sabotaging your efforts…

Income taxes stifle industry and discourages manufacturing. It can ONLY ever work short term, but when has the Government ever wound back a cash camel?

We look toward a better system. An essential system. People will have more money in their pocket at the end of the day which means they can buy more domestic product, which means more tax revenue from flat sales taxes.

Once we pay off our debt, our MASSIVE DEBT, then we can open up our doors again and take in foreign trade without a massive Tariff tacked on it.

The environmentalists can’t even complain, if they were honest. If they truly cared about carbon emissions, they wouldn’t permit huge oil tankers moving half-way across the globe when we could be drilling domestically.

Either they’re stupid, hypocrites, or evil.

Take your pick.

This is the way forward.

Tariffs are not scary. They are isolationist, but that’s not a bad thing. Indeed, self-sufficiency and a non-reliance on foreign scam artists and slave drivers is preferred. Remember, you cannot enact policy upon a foreign nation without making a few threats… We can’t compete with slave labor unless we refuse to buy from the slave drivers. Or, in the case of tariffs, make the cost-saving of using slaves redundant.

So, if you wanna convince someone of the utility of Tariffs, ask them how else one might stem the tide of goods made by slave hands?

The only logical conclusion to prevent slave labor is to tax the hell out of anything made from slave labor. I’m sure everyone can understand that…