>> Furthermore, this is anti free trade, destroying everything that this country represents. <<
better go brush up on your american history. do you know the first piece of legislation put forth in front of the first congress in 1789? the tariff act of 1789. did you know that washington, adams, madison, hamilton, jefferson, clay, lincoln, and all the republicans that followed such as mckinley, teddy roosevelt, cal coolidge, harding, hoover, taft, etc were all in favor of protective tariffs? more recently ronald reagan imposed quotas and tariffs.
"Give us a protective tariff, and we will have the greatest country on earth"
--Abraham Lincoln
"Thank God I am not a free-trader. In this country, pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre."
--Theodore Roosevelt |
