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Article I, Section 9, Clause 5 No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

• lesuorac 1y ago
  I see two easy ways to get around this. 1. It's a fee and not a tax. 2. Require the chips to be claimed as shipped from DC or another non-state. And the more practical way. 3. Just don't ever hear the case challenging it.
  • disqard 1y ago
    You forgot: 4. If the POTUS does it, it's not a crime. and 5. It's for National Security -- surely you don't want us giving our AI technology away to China without extracting something in return? There are many ways to handle this -- just watch Faux News, if this ever rises above the threshold of the ambient craziness and becomes "newsworthy".
    • cma 1y ago
      Initial tariffs on China were billed to be about fentanyl being exported to the US, largely by mail. Put into place just a few days after Trump pardoned the largest opiates by mail operator in world history, Ross Ulbricht.
      • lesuorac 1y ago
        I didn't know Ross ran USPS. It is a bit unfortunate how much Trump gets a pass for not solid decision making.