How To End The Embargo Excuse

This is a situation that took years to create and it is going to take some time to untangle. First Congress should sharply increase export tax for food and medicine already going to Cuba unless the regime can prove it is going to the Cuban people untaxed in the peso stores or available for free. Next products should be added in sequence as export duties are assessed and the necessary integration done with the Customs officials to legalize the various products that the government of Cuba wants to buy. This will take time and forcing the Cuban government to run the gambit of U.S. bureaucracy will also be a fitting punishment for wanting to be in charge of everything in Cuba.

But the gist of this new Constitutional approach is to make the regime apply for goods along with their plans for those goods. If the goods benefit the Cuban people then it would be cruel to tax such poor people so the tax would be zero. But should the goods benefit the regime top players then there would be a high tax since it would be appropriate to tax these rich people.

Naturally Raul will weep that America is meddling in Cuban affairs. But that is a silly notion. The Castro boys can and have done whatever they like for almost half a century. But the Castro boys likewise should not think that they can dictate U.S. tax policy authorized in our Constitution. That's the job of Congress. I want to lobby Congress to establish a mechanism in which the above more sensible policy can be enacted.