March 12, 1860 - Rep. Justin Morrill of Vermont speaks on the House floor to report his tariff bill's approval out of the the Committee on Ways and Means
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Do you not find it the least bit strange that a bill that you claim was to finance the war was taken up by congress well over a year before that war ever started and long before they even knew there was going to be a war? If the things that you claim about the bill's purposes were true (and they are not) Rep. Morrill must have been consulting with his psychics!
When Buchanan, (who was an advocate of slavery and a resident of Pennsylvania) took office, there was a 17 million dollar surplus in the treasury. By the time he left office, there was a deficit of between 80 million and 100 million. Now, explain to me how the government was creating a protectionist policy when it was so far in debt on it's existing funding? You have the classical southern viewpoint, which is that it would be better to have no schools than to have the money spent on them, that it would be better to have no newspapers than to have people read them and get the notion that they should have schools, and that always, someone else should pay the tab for the lazy and ignorant when they don't want to pay it for themselves.
Next, you must explain to me how a 1/4 cent increase in the tax on a pound of sugar flattened out the North's economy while at the same time, a war costing several billions can not be credited for being any sort of a drain on the Northern ecomony. Go ahead, I am still laughing your 'economic' brilliance.....
When Buchanan, (who was an advocate of slavery and a resident of Pennsylvania) took office, there was a 17 million dollar surplus in the treasury. By the time he left office, there was a deficit of between 80 million and 100 million. Now, explain to me how the government was creating a protectionist policy when it was so far in debt on it's existing funding? You have the classical southern viewpoint, which is that it would be better to have no schools than to have the money spent on them, that it would be better to have no newspapers than to have people read them and get the notion that they should have schools, and that always, someone else should pay the tab for the lazy and ignorant when they don't want to pay it for themselves.
Next, you must explain to me how a 1/4 cent increase in the tax on a pound of sugar flattened out the North's economy while at the same time, a war costing several billions can not be credited for being any sort of a drain on the Northern ecomony. Go ahead, I am still laughing your 'economic' brilliance.....