Where to start? Who in Congress has been proposing higher tariffs: Democrats. Our entry into World War I was under Wilson; WWII: after two FDR terms; Korea: after five or six years of Truman; Viet Nam: Ike sent advisers, but it was JFK who sent troops and LBJ who magnified our involvement exponentially. Are you against Reagan's incursion into Granada, the Gulf War, and the current efforts against terrorism?
Your Reply No. 344 lacks substance for a response. The only fantasy world in operation here is the one in which you claim federal workers don't pay taxes. My pay stub proves it, and I'm not extorting money from others. Get over the BS if you can.
Did you not get the point that we were talking about what happened to the Democratic party 1896? In the 19th century, tariffs were to protect industries. The ordinary farmer paid them. Today democrats want tariffs to protect big labor. It's still about the ordinary joe but in 1896, it got perverted from portection to exploitation.
As to your brain-damaged notion that you pay taxes. Look, let's say you net $50,000. That is fifty grand which has been taken from the productive economy to support you playing your little war games. It makes no difference how much your gross is. That's just the government giving with one hand and taking with the other. What difference does it make whether they write $50,005 or $5,050,000? It's not even real money, just paper shuffling. Which, of course, is the only thing bureaucrats know how to do.