Originally Posted By: RedKGB
How would you feel about a flat tax for income, and value added tax for anything made outside the US?


Initial opinion - that would be a tariff and probably against WTO agreements. I'd have to think more about it as a concept, but considering how little is made in the US, and how easy to game such system by say, doing packaging in the US and claiming "made in the USA!" I would highly doubt such measure would be effective.

Here is interesting story for you. For a while US had a import tax on some cargo vans mad outside of US. Don't remember why or when, but Ford would import them with passenger seats then remove these seats and sell the van. Then send these seats back to where they were manufactured to get reused. The only jobs US got out of it is a production line that would remove pointless passenger seats from otherwise perfectly good cargo vans.

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