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Originally Posted by Blackbird45
Again if you give the American consumer an incentive to buy American made products they will do so. I am not suggesting shutting our borders to foreign products, what I'm suggesting is to give American an equal financial playing field. This country was once a manufacturing giant. That now has shifted to a purchase and investment giant and we should use that tool in our favor.
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The history is interesting sadly few Americans know history or are taught it in school.
The income tax. Perhaps, the most hated tax, did not always exist. It was a temporary tax to pay for wars. What paid for government before the income tax was tariffs on imported goods making domestic products less expensive than imported goods. Government was also far smaller than it is today. FDR made the income tax permanent, he also greatly expanded government. Nothing is all good or all bad. Things are how they are.
It is as simple as we know that if you leave milk out in the heat it will quickly spoil. Or that a bare spot in your lawn will quickly fill with weeds.