I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.
U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … “And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.
I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.
France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .