[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Jefferson's point - and it's as important today as it was back then - is that a reasonable amount of revenue taxation is constitutionally permissible, but exorbitant taxation for a whole slew of redistributive and interventionist purposes is not."

And I agree with him. In fact in the post you sent me of Jefferson's quote (386), it does not even mention tariffs. So in your opinion the way you read Jefferson just about every state should secede now because we have oppressive taxation. Are you now advocating secession of your state or are your words just some part of a debate exercise?

[conimbricenses]

In fact in the post you sent me of Jefferson's quote (386), it does not even mention tariffs.

Actually it does.

"Under the power to regulate commerce, they assume indefinitely that also over agriculture and manufactures, and call it regulation to take the earnings of one of these branches of industry, and that too the most depressed, and put them into the pockets of the other, the most flourishing of all."

And since you are probably too dense to realize that he is obviously referring there to the taxation of imports, I'll go ahead and direct your attention to the text of the resolution in the Virginia legislature (adopted March 4, 1826 at Jefferson's own direction) that was the subject of that letter.

"Be it therefore Resolved, That the imposition of taxes and duties, by the Congress of the United States, for the purpose of protecting and encouraging domestic manufactures, is an unconstitutional exercise of power, and is highly oppressive and partial in its operation."