[WhiskeyPapa]

Unfair tariffs were the only reason my GG grandfathers fought.

Pretty goofy, as the vast majority of the tariff was collected in northern ports.

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

Pretty goofy, as the vast majority of the tariff was collected in northern ports.

If you would take a moment to read the speech, you would note that Senator Clingman addressed that fallacy at length.

[4CJ]

Pretty goofy, as the vast majority of the tariff was collected in northern ports.

And by that reasoning, those living in interior states - even today - pay no taxes/tariffs on the products imported. If that were true, foreign cars, lumber, steel and clothing, and thousands of other products would be cheaper due to the absence of tariffs. People in the coastal states would flock to the interior states to purchase their foreign goods.

Do you think that the importer simply absorbs the tariffs out of the kindness of their heart? It's passed along, regardless of where the tariff is collected and paid, the final consumer pays the tariff.