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To: bert
America was in love with tariff until free traitors like you took over.

1924 GOP platform (excerpt)


The Tariff

We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.

In the history of the nation the protective tariff system has ever justified itself by restoring confidence, promoting industrial activity and employment, enormously increasing our purchasing power and bringing increased prosperity to all our people.

The tariff protection to our industry works for increased consumption of domestic agricultural products by an employed population instead of one unable to purchase the necessities of life. Without the strict maintenance of the tariff principle our farmers will need always to compete with cheap lands and cheap labor abroad and with lower standards of living.

26 posted on 04/21/2023 5:23:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha........


27 posted on 04/21/2023 5:26:00 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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