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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The USA used to be funded by tariffs before income tax appropriated our money.


29 posted on 06/02/2019 11:57:01 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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The USA used to be funded by tariffs

The US government used to be much smaller and live closer to its Constitutional limits.

40 posted on 06/02/2019 1:19:27 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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The USA used to be funded by tariffs before income tax appropriated our money.

If you wanted to go back to that you would have to place a 250% tariff on every item imported.

50 posted on 06/03/2019 3:29:47 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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