‘Ignorant’: Trump gets schooled as he proposes new agency to collect tariffs
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By expanding the swamp through creation of yet another redundant federal bureaucracy, he will clearly Make America Great Once More.
Actually, the remit of CBP is extremely broad, extending way beyond taxing imports. For example, that lengthy wait to get back into the US is one of the duties of CBP; they are charged with keeping undesirables out, they enforce laws against importing prohibited items including importing undesirable non-human life forms that threaten US agriculture, they combat fraud. They do not currently confiscate seditious literature but in the future when such imports are outlawed, they would be in charge of restricting the flow of forbidden ideas. By creating yet another separate agency focused only on tax-collection, confiscation of money will be more efficient, which will make us Greater (it will embiggen the nation).
Congress will have to get in line with this proposal, since they actually passed a law (19 USC 1505) handing that authority to CBP. This raises an alternative possibility for greatness via efficiency: generalize the IRS into RS. They already are in charge of taking money away from people in the US, it could be simpler to merely transfer CBP tax-collecting authority to the IRS.
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The analysis in the Wikipedia link says the exact opposite on the piles of empirical evidence during a century or so of American economic growth. Does Cato think the boon could have been bigger ?