UNCONSTITUTIONAL


Our Founding Fathers Rejected
FREE TRADE And So Should We


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An American System for America Prosperity

The ideology of global free trade is not American—nor is it the free market system. America had the highest tariff rates in history at the same time we saw the greatest economic expansion in history.

The American System had three basic tenets to promote domestic industry. The government would:

  1. use tariffs to discourage imports, and leverage the purchasing power of government to give preference to domestic producers;
  2. invest in roads, ports, dams, canals, and turnpikes—then called “internal improvements,” now called infrastructure—to facilitate commerce; and
  3. regulate credit to spur economic development and deter speculation.

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