Whoops, Bobs about to go blind wanking with his calculator. Again.

BL> The tariff is only $1,500!

So lets scrap it completely since its such a small amount. Poor old Bob.

BL> And there is another fact beneath that: if the government loses its
BL> $1500 tariff, it has to recover it across the whole range of cars.

Nope, all that matters is the total tax collected,
doesnt have to be collected from cars.

BL> Imports account for 70% of the total market,

Soorree, they dont.

BL> The government does it all wrong. What they *should* do
BL> is reduce sales tax to zero and make it up with tariffs,

Soorree, we aint gunna make a high tariff barrier for you parasites
to loll on your feather beds behind. You get to go and fuck yourselves
instead, because you will just loll on your feather beds and not bother
about making decent cars at decent prices.

BL> This would provide local employemnt

Soorree, the ENTIRE car industry doesnt even employ 5K people now in
manufacturing, even including the all the parts manufacturers etc. Even
if we made ALL the cars here and had no imports at all, you would be fucking
lucky if you even got that up to 7K. 2K people ?  Whoopy fucking do Bob,
the total number unemployed can swing that much in a WEEK and you would
need FOUR HUNDRED of those changes to absorb the unemployed. Poor old Bob.

Sounds of chains being pulled and senile geriatric old farts who
cant even count being flushed down the tubes out of any say on policy.
@EOT:

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