According to your tariff ideas, both parties are responsible for $3 million in "fees" even though it is a great deal more work to bring in 100,000 automobiles and protect them as they cross the border yet you would charge them both the same. In effect, the diamond importer is subsidizing the vehicle importer, or is at least subsidizing all the jobs of the people who have to collect such information in the event someone wants to come through with 100,000 automobiles.
Shouldn't we put the tariff on the weight or even the dimensions of the goods being imported?
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nobody is charging people to sell domestic goods in their own country.
Selling domestic goods is a right. But if they want to bring
foreign goods into the country, it is a PRIVILEGE. This isn't an
initiation of force. There is absolutely NOTHING Marxist, statist,
or in any way a violation of the NAP in anything I've ever said.
Nothing I've said is the slightest bit protectionist either. The
people who live here own the markets here. They pay for government to
ensure that those who trade in it remain honest and forthright in
their dealings. When someone brings goods from foreign countries into
this one, they must pay their share for this protection. It's a
PRIVILEGE to be allowed to bring goods into this country from another.
Living here doesn't grant change this privilege into a right.
--- In [email protected], Cory Nott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The idea that it is a PRIVILEGE to sell goods in one's own country
is generally regarded as fascism. Not only that but setting a
percentage rate imposes higher costs on those who can afford to import
more, even though the protective border services provided to them may
be the same or even less. Pauls falls right into the old Marxist trap
- from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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> So then lacking any coherent or objective criteria for determining
what is and is not a tax, you decide on arbitrary whim?
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> Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:35 pm
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> > Wrong. Both governments have been placed in charge of the borders of
> > each nation and it doesn't matter if someone owns land within the
> > nation, just that they are bringing goods from one nation into
> > another. Each nation is placed in charge of guarding the borders of
> > that nation and granted the authority to charge tariffs on behalf of
> > those who live in the country as a PRIVILEGE to sell goods within that
> > country.
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