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How America’s Founding Fathers felt about tariffs

  • Written by Jeffrey Kucik, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Arizona
The founders weren't exactly free traders. John Trumbull

President Donald Trump’s trade wars have sparkedfierce debate about the role of protectionism versus liberalism in U.S. trade with other countries.

This debate is hardly new. It dates all the way back to America’s founding.

As a political economist interested in the historical...

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