Tariffs: Eliminates tariffs imposed on foreign goods and services. [A tariff is anti-consumer and...

...and anti-business.  It is anti-consumer in the way corporate taxation is.  It is simply something that is passed along to the consumer in higher prices for goods and services: thus importers do not pay tariffs but their US consumers do.  And contrary to what domestic businesses say, tariffs are anti-business for the domestic businesses they are supposed to protect because it insulates them from foreign competition and that prevents the marketplace from forcing them to innovate to lower their prices.  This insulation from market forces hurts domestic businesses by making them unable to compete internationally.  This challenge calls for a bit of tough love for these protected businesses to get them to learn to stand on their own two feet in the global marketplace.]

Future Challenges: In US states that allow citizen-initiated state-wide referendums, the first radio talk show host to champion this challenge and:

1) Help spearhead a state-wide citizen-initiated referendum drive within her/his state that would tax products of domestic businesses at 50% the rate that foreign businesses pay on similar products in tariffs and then rebate foreign businesses 50% of what they had paid in tariffs to sell that product in the state.  If her/his state allows people to sign petitions online, they need to have a way for people to sign the petition at the show's website.  If her/his state doesn't allow online petitions, the show's website needs to have a way for people to request referendum workers to come to their homes so they can collect the person's signature and then the host/ess encourages her/his listeners to go to the show's website and make the request.  [The idea is to eliminate the pampered status of tariff-protected domestic businesses in the state to force those domestic businesses to become competitive in the international marketplace.]

2) By way of Future Challenge #1, the host/ess is able to collect at least the minimum number of signatures needed to get the referendum on the state's ballot.

3) By way of Future Challenge #1, the host/ess is able to collect more than enough signatures so that if they were votes in the next state election, the referendum would win.

4) By way of Future Challenge #1, the host/ess is able to collect more than enough signatures so that if they were votes in the next state election, the referendum would win in a landslide (winning by at least a 2-to-1 margin).

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