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The Border Adjustment Tax (BAT) is really GREAT!

Economists seem less worried about it for several reasons.  First, other countries we trade with use the same thing against us.  Second, a BAT is not a trade restriction such as a tariff or quota that the World Trade Organization (WTO) can overturn as being in violation of a previous trade agreement.  Third, a BAT is not a trade export subsidy that would lead the WTO to approve countervailing duties so as to offset it.  Last and most important, a BAT does not effect retailers in such a negative way as is being…

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