[caddie]

America grew like a weed from 1776 till 1917 or therabouts.

Reason: very very low taxes, and no taxes on corporations or individuals.

Freeloaders kept chiseling until we got the current tax code disaster.

But nobody knows the priceless value of low taxes because teaching history is just about extinct, if not forbidden, in the skools.

[bert]

drivel

[central_va]

The Feds were funded with tariffs for the most part.

The Tariff Act of 1789, was the first major Act passed in the United States under its present Constitution of 1789 and had two purposes as stated in Section I of the Act which reads as follows;

"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]