Tariffs

Here's an oversimplification:

Floridians love oranges. However, the state demands that residents of Florida only eat oranges grown in Florida. The state of Florida issues a tariff on out of state oranges, charging growers in Georgia and Alabama a twenty percent tax just to sell their oranges in Florida. Since Alabama and Georgia orange growers don't want to pay the extra twenty percent, they'll either jack up the prices of their oranges or simply stop selling them to Florida residents. Therefore, Florida residents are stuck with getting oranges from Florida, like it or not.

Hell, it might even create and illegal orange trade. Imagine kids at the border of the state selling oranges instead of weed.

Yes, it's an oversimplification and no, and I'm not an economist, but I think tariffs are a real bad idea. Anything that jacks up prices and gives consumers less options is something that we should really reconsider implementing.