Maybe make it so its not a HUGE tax, 5% 10%, maybe make it only on specific types of goods.
Lost of different ways to handle it then the way it was handled in your example. Unfortunately you just want to have a bee under your bonnet and not discuss it.
Well, the intent of the tax is to keep out foreign made goods. The targets of that tax will retaliate in kind, keeping out our goods. If you make it a low tax, then it will be ineffective. If you make it effective in keeping out foreign goods, you will keep US goods from being exported.
This really isn't that difficult a concept.
If you prevent people from making business transactions then you prevent people from making money.
You might have missed it or It might have been on this same exact topic in a different thread but when you hear me talking "import tax" the tax is for a specific purpose.
That purpose was to go toward paying our foreign held national debt. It was also meant to be legislated in a way that the tax expires when the debt is gone (no exceptions) and that it is to ONLY be used for the debt (no exceptions).
These are caveats I hold in regards to my desire for an import tax on goods.
I get the concerns but I also get our dire situation.
Whether the tax is for reducing foreign held national debt or stealth girdles for Michelle Obama is immaterial. It makes foreign goods less competitive in the U.S. market, meaning they will sell fewer. Meaning they will retaliate against U.S. goods imported into their market. The result is that fewer goods get sold all around.