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To: SeeSharp

Thank you, my memory was fuzzy. Interesting that SC foresaw that tariffs were death on prosperity better than a century before Smoot-Hawley.


26 posted on 02/04/2009 6:48:37 AM PST by BelegStrongbow (Hypocrisy never bothers the hypocrite but hubris goes before a fall)
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To: BelegStrongbow

Jefferson, the Democratic-Republican Party, and the Virginia School of political thinkers saw it a generation before that. The tariff provision in the constitution was only intended to fund the government, not to protect favored industries.


27 posted on 02/04/2009 6:53:46 AM PST by SeeSharp
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