(November 27, 2024 at 10:16 am)Nanny Wrote: A fellow at the pub barked that Andrew Jackson funded the government on tariffs alone. I asked him when Jackson was President. He didn't know. I asked him how big was the federal budget when he did that. He didn't know. Neither did he know what a regressive tax is or how tariffs become one. But Trump is gonna make China and Mexico pay. umm humm.
Was this fellow also unaware that the tariff of 1828 very nearly caused a civil war (and would have done if Jackson hadn’t backed down)?
Boru
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