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Taussig (second from the left) at the 1911 Harvard commencement. Much of Taussigs work is available from Internet Archive: 1883: Protection to Young Industries as Applied to the United States (second edition, 1886) 1885: History of the Present Tariff, 1860–83; 1888: The Tariff History of the United States eighth edition, 1931,
The fledgling Republican Party led by Abraham Lincoln, who called himself a "Henry Clay tariff Whig", strongly opposed free trade. Early in his political career, Lincoln was a member of the protectionist Whig Party and a supporter of Henry Clay. In 1847, he declared: "Give us a protective tariff, and we shall have the greatest nation on earth".
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What happened a century ago can be instructive when evaluating presidential candidates' tariff proposals, writes Mark Edelman. Opinion: History of tariffs shows the limits of populism Skip to main ...
Trump’s calls to replace the existing federal income tax with protective tariffs is not only impractical in the face of growing federal deficits; it is also clashes with historical reality.
The Tariff Act of 1890, commonly called the McKinley Tariff, was an act of the United States Congress, framed by then Representative William McKinley, that became law on October 1, 1890. [1] The tariff raised the average duty on imports to almost 50%, an increase designed to protect domestic industries and workers from foreign competition, as ...