More on the ways to encourage U.S. made products
Posted on | December 4, 2010 | 3 Comments
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Submitted on 2010/12/04 at 7:32pm
You don’t get it, Orly. The reason that Texas’s tax is constitutional is because it applies equally to alcohol bought in the state and alcohol imported into the state — regardless of the origin point. IOW, the same tax applies to DOMESTIC products that applies to foreign imports. It would be unconstitutional for a state, like Texas, to levy a tariff/tax/duty/excise (however you want to label it) just on the imports from a foreign country. The Constitution reserves that power strictly to the federal government. Response from Orly: Politijabber, I get it, you don’t. Here is another example for you. France has a system of checking and inspecting all foreign made products, however it happens so, that they don’t have enough inspectors. The products sit on the docs for some time: days, weeks …At the same time local products go straight to the market. Do you get it now??? |
What can states do to protect themselves from cheap junk from China and keep jobs? If a state can have a liquor tax, it can have taxation on other products as well |
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December 5th, 2010 @ 6:04 am
With 24 years of tax law practice, I assure you that my understanding is quite solid. You, on the other hand, have put in zero effort to perform the legal research; you just spout off whatever comes into your head.
France is not the United States. It does not have the United State Constitution. In the United States, the SOLE power to levy tariffs on foreign products lies with the Congress.
If you are so confident in your understanding of tax and tariff law, why don’t you bring a lawsuit challenging GATT?
December 5th, 2010 @ 6:49 am
Well, it is obvious that we no longer live under the constitution anyway. We have an individual who is ineligible occupying the office of president. He says that he was born a British subject, and as a child he was an Indonesian citizen according to his school records. Presidents now routinely legislate by executive order, a power reserved for Congress. Executive orders are laws, and the constitution does not empower the executive branch with legislative powers. We have a congress that routinely votes on legislation without even the opportunity to read it. We have Supreme Court “justices” appointed by a usurper, who vote on whether or not to hear cases regarding the validity of their own appointments. We have the federal government mandating purchase of health insurance from private corporations, certainly not an enumerated power. We have the usurper, on a whim, exempting certain large corporations from the health insurance. We have the federal government taking ownership of manufacturing. The power to issue currency has been delegated to a private corporation, the Federal Reserve. We wage wars without congressional declaration. We, and our children, as travelers, are degraded, humiliated, sexually assaulted, and subjected to extremely dangerous ionizing radiation without probable cause and without a warrant at airports and this is spreading to other means of transportation. We have a federal government that collaborates with foreign governments to sue Arizona for checking legal status of suspects. We have fraudulent electronic voting machines (this has affected both Democrat and Republican candidates), we have ACORN, federally funded, caught in massive voter fraud and other criminal activities. We have hero LTC Lakin facing the likelihood of prison time for following his oath. I could go on with this but it would take many pages. You get the idea. So, why suddenly such concern for the constitution regarding state tariffs? Personally, if the constitution prohibits state tariffs, I am opposed, but equally opposed to all other violations.
December 5th, 2010 @ 10:05 am
I believe it will be addressed in the near future through other means more effectively, than me filing an individual law suit, but this is a possibility.
By the way, if you are so sure about what you are saying, why don’t you give your real name and a real e-mail address? What are you afraid of? That I will start complaining about you to everybody and his grandma? I have more important things to do.