So was George Washington acting immorally when he signed the Tariff Act of 1789? What an utterly ridiculous position you hold.
“So was George Washington acting immorally when he signed the Tariff Act of 1789? What an utterly ridiculous position you hold.”
The Tariff Act of 1789 did not include “protectionistic” tariffs. “The goal of using higher tariffs to promote industrialization was urged by the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, and after him the Whig Party. They generally failed because Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democrats said the tariff should be only high enough to pay the government’s bills; otherwise, it would hurt the consumers.” (first paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_history “