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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Hardly selective quoting and what you post from him just adds injury to insult (i.e. the South will pay for the war). Lincoln ran on the Morrill Tariff and the sent said if would secede if he got elected and it did. Additionally, my previous post more than drove the point home that the GOP was OVERWHELMINGLY the tax and spend party all the way up and into the 20th century. For God's sake, they lost Congress to the Democrats because of their stance on huge tariffs.

Just because they raised them througout the Civil War (to pay for their war no less) doesn't detract from the fact that they ran on raising them BEFORE the war and continued to so LONG AFTER THE WAR.


734 posted on 11/29/2006 12:11:11 PM PST by spacecowboynj
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To: spacecowboynj
For God's sake, they lost Congress to the Democrats because of their stance on huge tariffs.

After a long run in which their policies are credited with creating a booming economy.

740 posted on 11/29/2006 12:23:31 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: spacecowboynj
Just because they raised them througout the Civil War (to pay for their war no less) doesn't detract from the fact that they ran on raising them BEFORE the war and continued to so LONG AFTER THE WAR.

Any economist will tell you that the purpose of a protective tariff is not to raise revenue but to shelter domestic industries. If it is doing its job properly a protective tariff should discourage imports and reduce their volume, thus reducing the revenues realized by the tariff. Hard to believe a 'tax and spend' party would take steps to reduce their tax revenue.

747 posted on 11/29/2006 12:34:16 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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