But if they want to buy and make a lot of money and sell in the United States, they have to deal with. You know, if you go back and look at some of the good presidents, Our country was the wealthiest, proportionately the wealthiest from 1870 to 1913. It was an all tariff country. We didn't have income tax that came due in, that came in in 1913. We had tariffs and we had so much money we didn't know what to do with it. (37:20–37:29)
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Asserts that the U.S. was the wealthiest from 1870 to 1913 due to tariffs.
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