Author: Lee Francis Lybarger
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Published: 2015-08-06
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781332349098
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Excerpt from Tariff Primer: A Graphic Presentation of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, What It Is, How It Works, Whom It Benefits Can a people be enriched by their own taxation? That is the question now confronting the American people. If a people can be enriched by the simple process of taking hundreds of millions of dollars annually out of the pockets of the Many, and pouring them into the huge pockets of the Privileged Few, then the Fordney-McCumber Tariff is the most beneficient piece of legislation in the History of the Republic. If it be true that a people can be prospered by so simple a method, then will the new Tariff lift our toiling millions out of the perils of penury and want, up into the happy realm of abundance. Were the Tariff Issue so clear and definite as above stated, it would of course have disappeared long ago from our political history. No question about that. But it is not. On the contrary, it is an issue so complex and involved, so mixed up and confused by the multiplied relations sustained even by the average citizen in the complex financial and industrial life of today, that after generations of discussion, we know but little more about the Tariff than we did at the beginning. The heroic and independent spirit of our "Sires of '76," would not have considered the toleration of so monstrous and extortionate a measure as the Fordney-McCumber Tariff for a single minute. Their fight was against Taxation: we fight for Taxation. But the real facts in the case and the dire consequences to the consuming public - were far easier to see then than they are today. Amidst the complexities of our modern civilization, the fact as to who pays and who gets - as to who are the Tariffs beneficiaries and who its victims - can now be disguised, confused and hidden in a thousand different ways. The Authors interest in this subject began far back in boyhood days, when a student in the High School. More years of my life have been given to the study of the theory and the effects of a Protective Tariff - and of that universal thing, called Trade, which the Tariff seeks to obstruct - than to any other one problem connected with the general welfare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
