Excerpt from Newsmax:

The “border tax” proposed by House Speaker Paul Ryan is a “ridiculous” idea that will cause the price of gasoline and other goods to skyrocket, Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, tells Newsmax TV.

“It’s ridiculous. It’s a step to value added tax and value added taxes hit the very people who have elected Donald Trump president,” Forbes said Thursday to Steve Malzberg on “America Talks Live.”

“It’s going to raise the cost of gasoline for millions of motors 30 cents a gallon, raise the cost of vehicles $2,500, raise the cost of stuff you buy at Wal-Mart and Kmart. Do you want to do that to finance a corporate tax cut? Oh, I can see the Democrat ads on this already.”

As well, Forbes said, countries around the world affected by such a tax would retaliate, “so at the end of the day you’d have disrupted everything, you divide your base.”

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