Pres. Obama: I will not renegotiate raising debt ceiling

[JustAnotherGen]

72. I think so too

I think that import taxes would help bring jobs back here because it would make American products more competitive in price and they have always been of better quality than most of the imported stuff (especially the stuff imported from the third world).

July 4th 1789 - Tariiff Act. For about 100 years it was a chief way to raise revenue - think Louisiana Purchase was paid for with Custom's revenue.

Take quality of the product out of it - if folks want to buy it in he US - let them. But at a price that reflects a fair Tariff on those goods.

I have five interconnected duties in my current position. Import/Export Controls is one of them. The import classification tables are about three inches thick. Let's make it six inches by adding a few digits to every single that is not raw materials. Raw materials stay the same so we can make something with those materials here.

We haven't even begun to tap into the revenue potential that was intended at Customs implementation and was in place for 100 years. And it could be used to bludgeon Founding Father's worshippers who insist they never intended to collect taxes at all, ever, from anyone, at all times, etc etc.