Reply #9: A national sales tax? Let's start charging foreign corporations for access to our markets FIRST.

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Why should foreign owned corporations have free use of our markets, infrastructure, legal system and military and police protection while we charge our own citizens even more for buying crap from them? Where else will the world sell their crap if they don't have access to our US markets? Do you think the Communist Chinese might buy all that crap they ship through Wal-Mart over here? Do you think the Indian government will start using their own call centers as much as American citizens do? I think we need to start charging foreign corporations for having access to our US markets BEFORE we charge US citizens for buying their crap.

Why should foreign corporations have a free ride while US citizens pay for their market support and maintenance? We should start charging tariffs at least as high as they charge us.