It is typical of Marxist internationalist such as you to engage in personal insult. Abolition of tariffs is an idea specifically advicated by Marx. An idea can be anti-Christian even if introduced before Christ; and an economic concept can be Marxist in its essentials well before Marx. who STOLE his ideas from everyone else anyway.
Now would you please go back to the l;ibrary at yopur college andf read you little peice of filth about what the USA was founded upon. Personal liberty protective traiffs were viewed as essential to personal liberty. Equating tariff s with slavery is not really valid historically as slaveholders and those who profitted from slaveholding were the primary opponents of protective tariffs. You really should have read a history book before you started posing on Free Republic and calling names. I am used top seeing Marxist isealogs post on Free Republic and the tactics are always the same personal attack without basis. Assertions of facts contradictory to the historical record. denial of facts continued lying and deciet.
Tariffs provided the basis for teh USA going from an agricultural enclave hugging the Atlantic Coast to the greatest industrial power of the world. The decline of the British Empire correlates nicely with the British getting rid of protective tariffs.
Your personal attacks make me realize that you are just another anti-American piece of filth who is tryiong to use the fact the US once had slavery as a weapon against the USA. The USA fought a Civil War over the issues of Slavery and tariffs the side advicating slavery was against protective tariffs.
Clearly today the side advoicating a reintroduction of slavery to the USA is the side against protective tariffs.
Marx hated anything that involved individual choice, and favored any expansion of government power he could get. More tariffs, more power, more tariffs, more power. That, sir, is marxist, and it doesn't matter if the Founders, who understood things differently, didn't see it that way. 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.