On the recordMarch 4, 1843
And, again, by the tariff system the whole revenue is paid by the consumers of foreign goods, and those chiefly the luxuries and not the necessaries of life.
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In a Whig Committee address, Lincoln explains that a tariff system places the burden of revenue collection primarily on consumers of foreign luxury goods.
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