[Gianni]

You continue to neglect the fact that the shape of the American economy at independence was not the result of market forces but of Imperial policy.

I don't deny that fact; what I'm saying is that abuse by the crown does not justified continued abuse at our own hands, and every artificial prop for our production and industrialization will ultimately have negative consequences.

[justshutupandtakeit]

There was no abuse in trying to clear away the hurdles erected by the British. It was a political necessity to strengthen those sectors necessary in an independent nation. It was exactly "artificial props" which had to be cleared away. Or artificial constraints.