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Just to add, the company importing those goods then increases prices to make up for the expense, passing the costs to consumers (Americans). I think that is an important note.
One can use that same logic to argue for the abolition of sales (and corporate) tax in general?
It is important to note because trump is pretending it isn't a tax, it's not logic meant to abolish all taxes. The comment seemed pretty tame for you to pull that out of it.
The real problem is that people can't afford an extra 40% tax on top of what we have now. We don't need to abolish taxes, we need to bring them up for specific groups, mostly the ultra rich.
Ehhh I would say in a general sense that sales tax absolutely should be done away with. Really any regressive tax, including payroll taxes (there is a cap, so higher income earners don't pay their relative share), the current structure of property taxes, tolls, so on.
Even then I wouldn't call it good, just better, but that'd be a whole separate discussion.