Historians will tell you -- do not believe it.
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Aaron Rupar
Trump: "You know, our country was the strongest, believe it or not, from 1870 to 1913. You know why? It was all tariff based. We had no income tax." (This is nonsense.)
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And will order the history books that tell the truth to be burned.
hmmm. I don't know.
I’m not even a history nerd, and I know this. 🤦♂️
How the McKinley Tariff Almost Destroyed the Republican Party
https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-mckinley-tariff-almost-destroyed-republican-party
I’m the believe it or not sweepstakes
He’s a fucking menace !
75% of the increases in National Debt from Reagan on took place in Republican Administrations.
Now, nothing makes sense with proposed tax cuts. They have no sure incomes and they increase the debt by 5.8 T.
This seems pretty consistent with all these billionaires who have more money than they could ever spend in multiple lifetimes, but thinks taxes are the “useless people” just taking from them.
Is that what he's saying?
Because that only maths if we keep our tariffs forever and hope no other country places tariffs on our goods.
Life was just varying levels of hell for everyone else.
No massive standing military. No federal interstate system. No space program
Cockamamie strategery and everyone goes oooh-aahhh such a smart businessman
But I’m pretty sure she’d say this was bullshit.
https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/tarri/
Maybe we need our own monkey's paw now.
So we’re 2/3rds of the trifecta already.
As every other country lay in ruin?