Sorry. You don’t really want to read about tariffs on these beautiful fall days, but both our presidential candidates have made this form of taxation central to their economic and foreign policy agendas. So suck it up and pay attention.
Tariffs were the largest source of revenue for the government for the first 130 years of American history. At times, it exceeded 80 percent of tax collections and was always up around half of all receipts. Tariffs paid the bulk of the costs of American government for a long time. Yes, Nikki Haley, slavery caused the Civil War, but tariffs were a big annoyance to the South because they had to pay more for pretty much all manufactured goods, and northern industry was protected from lower price foreign competition.
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