The present tariff taxes some of the comforts of life unnecessarily high; it undertakes to protect interests too local and minute to justify a general exaction, and it also attempts to force some kinds of manufactures for which the country is not ripe.
Jackson critiques the tariff system for its negative impact on the comforts of life and local interests.
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