Largest US nail manufacturer 'on the brink of extinction' because of the steel tariffs

[Oceander]

At first income taxes were only levied on the very wealthy. That is how the income tax was sold to
the American people, a voluntary tax only on millionaires. But after a while around the time of
WW2 the "voluntary" disappeared and so did the "only on millionaires". Income tax plus Federal Reserve equal lots of "free" money for our political leaders. That is until our debt become so large
that just paying the interest consumes just about the entire budget. You better hope the feds
keep interest rates very low.

You really should read a little history from time to time.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Federal_taxes_by_type.pdf

The income tax was never voluntary.  Where do you people come up with this nonsense?  Let me guess, you cross out the penalties of perjury statement on your 1040 and file as a sovereign citizen.

[DB]

What ever they have the worlds largest economy (or soon will) and they did that behind a wall of
high tariffs. Just like we did. Those are the facts.

Tariffs protect domestic industries and allow them to grow. They prevent predatory trade practices
like dumping.

Maybe you don't give a damn about American industry and American jobs as long as you can get
cheap stuff at Wal-mart but remember this. The Chicoms are putting the dollars you send then
into machines designed to kill you and your family. And they have the will do use those weapons if
they think they need to.

LOL...

They have four times our population and still haven't exceed our GDP and you call that some kind of brilliant success...

They started from essentially zero and had no where to go but up with looser chains.

Yet you hold them up as some sort of economic success story to emulate...

Wow!

The only way to make America "great" again is shrink government so it isn't shackling the productive people and consuming their resources. Playing three card monte with how government confiscates their productivity doesn't fix anything. It only picks winners and losers.

[Wingnut]

Same story same actors.