Quote Originally Posted by Ranger View Post
To what end Nynco? Would we increase taxes on all imports so that they would then do the same for our exports? This isn't the first 100 years where our imports/exports were nowhere near where they are now nor was our market the driving market of the world nor were we anything more than a small struggling country with just a couple million people. That model can no longer work in a global economy.

And the class warfare that you want to wage, who will that benefit in the end? Raises the taxes on the rich, that's what I keep hearing, yet those "rich" are the ones who create jobs and expand our economy. So we penalize them for what? For being better off than the rest of us, that's what it boils down to. The rich are easy targets, they are the haves and we are the have-nots.

Rubbish.
Please tell me how it is class warfare to want a flat tax on all earnings regardless of labor or investment source? Its class warfare to argue that investors should not pay taxes on income like a worker.

As to the amount of trade... yes there is more trade now. But there was a lot more trade back then too than you realize. Shipping has improved. But the relation of society size to trade back then was very high too. Why do you think we fought the revolution? Mainly because of economics. The crown had reverse tariffs on the colonies. We were by law not allowed to manufacture.