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TARIFFS to protect against outsiders!! We don't need those folk over here
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I have also argued that tariffs are less bad than other taxes.
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I knoooow, on the margin anyway.
You've been quiet about that in recent months. Argument fallen out of favor...?
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It's not hot anymore. I regret nothing.
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Or tourists become an elevated class because they bring the money. I’ve been to some 3rd world countries like that.
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It's also about incidence. If you subscribe to the notion that local governments are meant to serve local people, and that tax incidence will be shared between both the consumers and producers... then the tourist tax at least places more of the incidence on outsiders for whom the local government has no obligation towards.