Thread: FairTax and Trade

Just a note to anyone who is interested about the vehicle of the FairTax to resolve trade deficits.

1. The FairTax taxes consumption at the retail final point of sale instead of taxing income. That means every element from manufactured parts, services, research, technology, transportation, components, energy, everything that is part of the supply chain of that product or service is taxed at the final point of sale of the final product or service. There is no tax on the producers, only the consumer.

2. As a result every sale of every new product or service in the United States is taxed the same by the FairTax, whether domestic or imported.

3. As a result of that, our producers are on a level playing field with a comparative advantage over foreign producers.

4. As a consequence of that, you don't need trade agreements or complex trade deals to balance the trade deficits. You might need them for unfair practices like stealing intellectual property and currency manipulation, but you don't need them to balance the trade deficit, the FairTax does that without confrontation, without debate, without arguments, trade wars, etc., because it just balances in normal course, because with the FairTax everyone is charged the same tax, and because our domestic producers are here with tremendous location, intellectual and technological advantages, our producers will prevail over foreign competition.

I strongly urge the President and Congress to consider this enormous trade fix advantage of the FairTax as everyone is blowing up over "tariffs". The FairTax does not eliminate tariffs, both the President and Congress would retain the right to impose tariffs for national security, trading violations, dumping, and any other reason they have, but they would not be necessary to balance the trade deficits. The FairTax will do that automatically in due course and do so very quickly without fuss or muss or international conflicts and disputes.

GET SMART!!! FAIRTAX NOW!!