"Whereas it is necessary for that support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares and merchandise:"[1]
I won't be pushed around by Fascist gloBULLists anymore. Keep it up this could get real ugly.
Yes they were. The appeal to authority is just another evidence of your logical fallacies and the silliness of your anti-free trade thinking.
The Founders knew nothing of modern economics. The ideas of Adam Smith hadn’t made it here to clarify that the mainstay of English capitalism, called mercantilism, was an abject failure and was impoverishing and ruining the British Empire.
You might fool the uneducated and those ignorant of history with your appeal to the honorable George Washington and the other Founders God blessed American with, but you won’t fool me. The Founder’s intentions were correct. Limit government.
Say it every morning when you get up. Limit government. Limit government. Limit government.
Instead, you seek to strengthen government and limit people. It’s you who mock the Founders.