[Jim W N]

It is Socialist Leftists like you who call freedom treason.

[central_va]

Again I ask was George Washington being socialistic when he signed the Tariff Act of 1789?

Tariffs are an excise taxes levied on imports. They are regressive because they raise the price of goods and services. The poor must pay these higher costs in the form of higher prices.

Income taxes are progressive, like you.

[central_va]

Gee the founders who codified duties and tariffs in the USC were a pack of Marxists. Who knew?

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Article 1 - The Legislative Branch Section 8 - Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

[Sam Gamgee]

I agree that one globalism is good, and the other isn’t; but sadly it seems many conservatives now oppose both...