Did you just float out the idea of getting rid of income taxes and replacing it with tariffs? Well, okay. Were we serious about that? Yeah, sure. But why not? Because we ready. Our country was the richest relatively in the 1880s and 1890s. A president who was assassinated named McKinley. He was the tariff king. He spoke beautifully of tariffs. His language was really beautiful. (41:17–41:24)
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