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To: LS
Typical pro-tariff guy to favor slavery.

Actually you have your history and the present day wrong. By opposing reasonable tariffs to counter other nation's restrictions on trade one is acting against slavery wherever found.

Jefferson strongly opposed the tariff (he was right).

Jefferson's opposition to the tariff was limited as he favored tariffs primarily for revenue and in some induistries he recognized as crucial to American defense.

Hamilton favored it.Finally you got something correct not enough to pass basic history or economicsbut something correct.

Marx hated anything that involved individual choice, and favored any expansion of government power he could get.He also opposed tariffs by his own writings on teh subject 6they got in the way of a unified international system.

More tariffs, more power, more tariffs, more power.That is an ubsanstaiated allegation that contradiucts history.

That, sir, is marxist, and it doesn't matter if the Founders, who understood things differently, didn't see it that way.

Since your position is the position of Karl Marx and you try to contradict facts this allegation refutes itself.

Hamilton came from the old British mercantilist Big Government policies, and Adam Smith was quite new by the time he was Sec Treas. But you know SO much about history, just have at it.

I have and about the only thing you have gotten right was that Alexander Hamilton favored protective tariffs. Maybe you should read something that is outside of the reading list for Democratic underground or Beijing University.

109 posted on 08/03/2003 10:36:50 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: harpseal
So the south was wrong to oppose tariffs? I want to make sure I understand you: the support for tariffs and liberty go together, right?

(BTW, the tariff was our only source of income other than land sales. Didn't make it right.)

114 posted on 08/03/2003 10:52:33 AM PDT by LS
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