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Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? by dv_dt on Thursday March 19, 2020 @05:22PM (#22631888)
Such a tariff could be made more economically neutral if the tariff proceeds were distributed to citizens as a dividend too.
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Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? by eru on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:37AM (#22634932)
You'd still get deadweight losses.

Easier to image with a 1,000,000% tariff: nobody would actually pay the tariff, so there's no dividend to distribute. Yet, you get an economic impact.

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Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? by dv_dt on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @05:34PM (#22688729)
no one is suggesting that tariff level though so it's a pretty much unrealistic value to work throuh.
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Re:Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? by eru on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @08:31AM (#22736848)
Well, that's the tariff level that corresponds to a ban on imports, basically.

You still get deadweight losses from lower tariff levels.

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