Republican (nationalist) President-elect Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, in a speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, says “The tariff is to the government what a meal is to a family. … I must confess that I do not understand the subject [the economics of tariffs].”
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Authority:
Article I of Amendment
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References:
“Speech at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, “Abraham Lincoln, Collected Works, seven volumes, Roy P. Basler, ed., (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 4:210, 211.
The Real Lincoln—LewRockwell.com.htm
www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/thomas-dilorenzo/the-real-lincoln-2/
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