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To: Rate_Determining_Step
Taxes and tariffs are organized theft. The government derives it's just power from the people.

You do realize that tariffs have been in effect since early in U.S. history, do you not? Indeed:

1789 - Tariff of 1789

While looking for sources of revenue, Hamilton advocated a revenue tariff. It was passed on the fourth of July in 1789, and created duties on about 90 items that ranged from five to ten percent. Although the tariff was established as purely a revenue tariff, it led to the creation of the protective tariff in 1816.

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So I suppose I'm in the same boat as George Washington. And you, by your words, are not.

Free trade - a fancy name for economic treason.

277 posted on 03/26/2006 2:40:55 PM PST by neutrino (Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.(173))
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To: neutrino
Hamilton is generally not the Founding Father associated with small government Republican principles.

Others here have talked about the essential issue I raise - funding government. Minimalist government's funding mechanisms have ranges from the "flat tax" to the "head tax" to a voluntary tax system. To argue which one is most correct and consistent with the original American founding ideals is an argument I welcome.

BUT, it not what we argue about. We argue about Patrick Buchannen-style protectionism. You guys claim it's a national security issue and claim those who don't buy American are "traitors".

If you seek to make China the same as Al Qaida, then make that case convincingly and you'll have people on your side. Telling others that they're traitors because they don't save American jobs from foreign competition isn't the same thing.

Most of us can see that welfare wrapped in the American flag is a pretty disgusting site.

292 posted on 03/26/2006 6:33:31 PM PST by Rate_Determining_Step (US Military - Draining the Swamp of Terrorism since 2001!)
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