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This argument must have originated with the employers of home labor, and not with the home laborers themselves.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “This argument must have originated with the employers of home labor, and not with the home laborers themselves.”
Editor's note · Context
He suggests that the justification for protectionist policies comes from employers rather than laborers.
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They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.