Labor and wage laws are in effect taxes.
Importing products from overseas instead of locally is in effect Tax evasion.
Tariffs, if used correctly, puts that tax back on them.
This is the argument many Trump supporter make, and it is mostly correct.
But Trump isn’t doing that. The Tariffs he is talking about are all punitive. Almost all punitive taxes do lots of damage, and little good, no matter the type of tax.
You can now read for free my science fiction novella, I Took a Walk for no cost on either Reamstories https://reamstories.com/jamesrsteinhaus or Inkspire. https://getinkspired.com/en/u/james-steinhaus-89658 Don’t forget to go to good read and leave a review of it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174855036-i-took-a-walk To read this story of corporate espionage gone wrong for free,…
A few years back, I began writing the serial Donald of Mars on Kindle Vella. Vella is closed, but I’ve kept the story going in other places. The main idea behind it was to have not some grand science fiction adventure, or romance or horror set on a Mars colony but to give people a much more realistic idea of what living in the early years in one of the first Mars Colonies might be like. It is…
Kara, known as the fourth universe, has magic, its surface is infinite. The areas that humans colonized, has a greater population than all the human colonized planets in the other three universes combined. A combination of technology and magic has let mankind spread out fast there and have a higher standard of living than is possible with technology alone. Five hundred million plus continents…
I use this chapter to introduce people to more of the unusual things one might see in a Mars colony and some attitudes that might result from living there. I hope you find it useful, and the topics get further explored in later chapters. It is available on Kindle Vella or Patron.
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Renegade on Kara: The Great Basin Roger was the gifted top student at a university dedicated to magic so large it took up several continents of the infinite universe known as Kara. That prestigious university was simply called The University. But not all the students accepted that the AIs rated him higher than they. One managed to goad him into an illegal duel. In winning, he loses everything,…
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The next installment of In the Service to Evil is now out in eBook and publishing in paperback, Ashes is still trying to walk the Gray Path, serving neither good nor evil, but it is difficult. Events keep pushing her deeper and deeper into the darkness, not least of which is the demon bound to her soul. Time and again she barely escaped alive. Read it now on Books to Read or Amazon. Books to…
Spoiler: King Peter is an Avatar!
Some of my test readers of Vikings of Asgard have asked me about the character King Peter. Here is a partial spoiler; He is an Avatar. But unlike the movie Avatar, anyone that sits in the operator chair can operate him and when no one is in it, the AI runs him. Junior researchers mostly operate him. Asgard is their experiment. One of thousands, in fact. They have as little regard for the people…
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Criticism on how bad the stuff on Kindle Vella is, is common, and much of it, accurate. Right along with its established serial authors, with well-honed story-telling skills, are even more authors still learning to tell good stories, and the craft of writing. But writing is just like any art and takes years of practice to do well. Any incentive to keep at it helps keep the writer at it. Amazon…
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