Bob Calco wrote: >> It is likely the USA used a tariff to raise government revenue in the >> early days of our nation, because a tariff is easy to collect at the >> ship's port of call, where as an income tax places a much greater >> bureaucratic burdon on a government. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs >> >> > > Go back and read the debates. Not just for the Tariff Act of 1789, but > throughout the first 150 years of the system's history. This was not the > rationale. And it was a complete success, with respect to its stated > rationale. >
Well, I'm not surprised the government didn't rationalize a tariff system be used because, the USA was incapible of handling a fair income tax system at that time. LOL Of course, they would sell the tariff system to the country talking about the benefits of a tariff. Regards, LelandJ > During Teddy Roosevelt's administration, the government had such a huge > surplus of revenue from the model that they had to "justify" it by building > public works projects, like funding the railroad infrastructure. > > We got off it because the "philosophy" of our Republic started to change > dramatically with the administration of Woodrow Wilson, whose vision of > making the world safe for democracy was actually no different than Dubya's.. > or Clinton's...or Nixon's... or Kennedy's... or Eisenhower's...or Franlkin > Roosevelt's... or eventually Obamessiah's when his handlers feed him his > "actual" governing policies. > > Both parties are in the bag for free trade, the only distinction is how much > regulation they want to attach to said "free" trade. A difference of degree, > not kind. > After all the hymn hawing and back and forth on the NAFTA was done, I think both Obama and McCain now favor NAFTA, even though it could alienate some hard working blue collar folks. I'm all for NAFTA and other free trade agreement as long as they allow balance between imports and exports. Regards, LelandJ > - Bob > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
