Misconceptions regarding tariffs often are caused by advocates of Free Trade policies. As we have all learned to our great dismay, Free Trade is seldom Fair Trade. But the case for tariffs is inexorably linked to the domestic tax laws and policies of any trading nation. Commerce is good and should be encouraged. However, the notion of beneficial rewards for our own society based upon the current 'real world' practices of international business, is absent in most instances. We need to be honest and real! The natural bias in business is to seek monopolies.

Today, our economic life line is regulated and determined by the axis of a corrupt State/Corporation union. The only partners in trade, is that of government and its protected enterprises. Intelligent discussions about trade policy must concede that the true value of business, exists only when the economic interest of a countries population, shares in the profits from commerce. Don't misread the intent of this statement. There is no inherent right for equal distribution. Remember that no State or Corporation has any "rights". Only people have "rights".

Our deplorable record in international trade is proven with our historic balance in trade deficits. This is real money gone off shore, taken out of our economy and has profound and negative consequences. U.S. Corporations, routinely form foreign subsidiaries and move operations to remote areas around the world, for the purpose of avoiding the higher costs of domestic labor, benefits, regulations, infrastructure and taxes. But they are allowed to sell their goods back into their home economy, at market prices that have no relationship to true market costs. In essence the remaining domestic industries subsidize those firms that left our shores and set up houses overseas. Profits are good, but for them to be valid, they must be earned on a level playing field.

This is why our tax laws must correct the abnormalities in current policies and trade agreements. Real competition is desirable and needs to be fostered by removing advantageous treatment for favored companies. Our goal should not be an interdependent world trade system that is controlled by select groups of monopoly elite's. We should strive to reinstitute national independence in manufacturing, which will guarantee national economic survivability and well paid living wages for our future generations.

Pro-Competitive Tariffs is a necessary solution to restore domestic business. Today the operating principle for international business is collusion. Governments grow in power when their cohort Corporation partners drive out domestic companies.

A standard error is that tariffs inhabit trade, and have contributed to the "winds of war". Positive tariffs will place the tax burden where it belongs, on the foreign producer. It is a benefit to conduct trade, for there is no "right" to dump products or to sell below costs of the importing societies. Efficiency in markets should not be viewed in world wide terms, for a very simple reason. Globalists manipulate trade agreements to create cartels that they control. Every trade treaty has the same goal, to diminish the independence of national economies and force domestic consumers to become totally dependent upon foreign industries. No nation can remain free, when they are reduced to vassals of international State/Corporations axis.

The Davos crowd of an international interdependent economy wants you to accept the following: "The conclusion of the trade theory is that free trade leads to the most efficient use of world resources."

Note the philosophy - most efficient use of world resources. In a nut shell you have the game of Free Trade exposed for its ultimate political objectives. They despise tariffs because they are effective in curbing foreign dependency.

The method to adopt for restoring a viable domestic economy would require reforms that drastically lower, if not abolish, personal income taxation - be linked to the passage of Pro-Competitive ad valorem Tariffs in the form of a national import sales tax. We all share in the goal of smaller government, less regulation and free usage of our own money. We have a mutual interest in building a domestic economy that will create higher wage scales and more retained after tax income for the greatest number of our own population. When the best jobs become government work, our society is doomed and reduced to the median world wide income levels.

Our solution of taxing at the waters edge will allow government revenue to be raised from foreign manufacturers, no matter where their corporate charter is domiciled. Our own balance of payments will move back into equilibrium. Domestic enterprises will have the effective opportunity to reindustrialize America. A key component is to have a tax code that will reduce the percentage in the tariffs upon achieving the elimination of the balance of trade deficit. The trigger in rates will be determined by the healthy  recovery of domestic capacities.

Most laymen fail to appreciate the productive and desirable effect of the Velocity of Money. When commerce is vibrant, profits and wages are generated that instill high expectation, which allows for new purchases, because future earnings  are secure. Free trade policies uses the velocity of the money principle to empower their cartels. Fair trade that is based upon a thriving indigenous and native economy, brings opportunity to our own communities.

Flexible Tariffs, when tempered with reforms in our own tax codes that require supra nationals and multinationals to enter a truly Free Enterprise environment, would greatly improve the likelihood of real competition. Consumers have been sold out with the promise of cheap foreign goods. Any short term discount, has the high cost of permanent loss in American employment. When one is destitute and out of work, lower prices at Walmart won't fill the cart.

And God forbid what might happen when foreign producers decide to raise prices or withhold their production because of a political turmoil or confrontational crisis! National security does has an authentic meaning, when applied to essential segments of national needs. Open your minds - Freedom is served when you control your own economic future.  Pro-Competitive Tariffs can be a step in the right direction.