San Diego, California Talk Radio Station - 760 KFMB AM - 760kfmbDon't tergiversate, conservatives! Taxes are bad. And tariffs are taxes!

Conservatives don't like taxes. We think that high taxes increase prices, increase unemployment and slow economic growth.

Why then do conservatives tend to support tariffs (taxes on imports)? Tariffs are just another tax with the same results as any other tax.

Watch this video 4 or 5 times in a row:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD9vK5bCS7I

*57.7% of imports are raw materials or capital goods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlkQRGZEycI

Chapter 11 of Economics in One Lesson takes about 10 minutes to read and says it all.

*Tergiversate, the 2011 word of the year; "to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate." Synonym: Politician.