Left-wing politicians advocate using the pandemic to shape the country with liberal ideology. What would happen if right-wing politicians used the pandemic to shape the country with conservative ideology?

Imagine if in addition to spending $2 trillion on a coronavirus emergency response bill, we also placed a one-year moratorium on collecting all income tax revenue (also about $2 trillion in value). Thus, the taxpayers could keep more of their hard-earned income for at least one year while the country recovers from the cost of the pandemic.

Why bother collecting tax revenue anyway, since the government is already spending money it doesn’t have? Instead, we could be generating revenue in the way the country was originally founded (until 1913) by raising tariffs on imported goods — especially from China.

Joel Last

Greensburg

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