In a pure market sense, it's attempting to remove the redistribution

You take 10 bucks from me for no reason, so I take it back.

You are telling buyers to pay more for a product because it's deemed socially beneficial to raise the prices to help domestic producers. That's still a distortion.

It's odd.

It's a distortion that levels out an existing distortion

But the people who pay the tarriffs are Americans.

and the people hurt by the other countries tarriffs are Americans...

You may like the distortion, but it's still playing favorites with tax policy.

I feel like we're going in circles here

We have an agreement. Every year we trade eggs for cheese at a 1:1 weight ratio

I'm just saying let's consider distorting the market in favor of human beings over robots.

In circles pfft

We are, since it's still arguable that the tariffs are bad anyway, and will cause problems if used as a long term solution.

One year I tell you Im going to favour cheese, so that we're now trading at a 1.1:1 ratio in my favour

Agreed

So then you decide to raise your end to match

Which is why taxing robot owners can cause the same kind of problems.

We've returned to 1:1

The sum total is now higher, the cost is higher

But all you did was match my bias

Also, is wealth static in a system?

Happy thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

But you're still causing additional distortion which punishes some consumers in your country. What if I don't eat eggs? Or cheese? I'm not sure which is local and which an import in your example.

Gobble

🦃

a smaller distortion though

It's not that Canada doesn't consume cheese and has too many eggs

It's that Canada is playing Cheese favourites and expecting the US to put up with it

Thank you everyone for keeping me awake through my tryptophan coma :-)

what if you can't tax the robots?

say by production being outside of your jurisdiction?

Why is that something to be kept away from?

You tax their fuel and power

what if you can't?

Embrace the food coma

Can’t have robots without a way to make them run

what if you create oil platforms that both produce and dig oil for fuel? 😛

on international waters

The cheese favouritism actually hurts Canadians too. It's a non competitive system within the country