Ex-tolling Virtues, Duty bound.  

Forget about tariffs...if you will, can, for just a minute (as in "they're on pause, for the moment, until, we can get a better deal..."). You know, the imposition of taxes on goods being brought here to U.S. for our us and enjoyment. Oh, yeah, the specific, exceptional case of all those taxes that this admin. made its brand to bring down. Which they said they saw as part of their sworn duty, to uphold, in terms of the rights of the rest of U.S. AKA...

In purse suit of freedoms...liberty, happiness even. All this while not raising, even lowering taxes, which raised a few eyebrows, as well as campaign contributions (something about "paying it forward...short term pain for...") 

Sounds Virtue-US, eh? With the emphasis on "eh" given the source of future income from the north country, the country to the north whose name, apparently, is about to be changed, absorbed, as in "Incorporated". Oh yeah, forgot to mention, in the pretext, I mean context, of "duty, honor, country..." are ranked, according to the new/old administration, appropriately, and things they take seriously, with all the new "duties" on goods and services that "heretofore" taken for granted or, in their/his words "we've been getting screwed over..." But also, a revelation, great reveal, to be brought out by the new press secretary as an emerging market, as tolls, including on virtues -- why stop here?