Everyone must be sensible that a distribution of the surplus must beget a disposition to cherish the means which create it, and any system, therefore, into which it enters must have a powerful tendency to increase rather than diminish the tariff.
Jackson argues that surplus distribution encourages the very means that create it, thus increasing tariffs.
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