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If a protective tariff is either “unconstitutional” or “robbery,” then it is just as unconstitutional, just as much robbery, to revise it down, still leaving it protective, as it would be to enact it.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “If a protective tariff is either “unconstitutional” or “robbery,” then it is just as unconstitutional, just as much…”
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Roosevelt argues that if tariffs are deemed unconstitutional or immoral, then any reduction of them would also be problematic.
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