Tariff Primer

Author : Lee Francis Lybarger
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530660278
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Tariff Primer written by Lee Francis Lybarger and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the PREFACE. Can a people be enriched by their own taxation? That is the question now confronting the American people. If a people can be enriched by the simple process of taking hundreds of millions of dollars annually out of the pockets of the Many, and pouring them into the huge pockets of the Privileged Few; then the Fordney-McCumber Tariff is the most beneficient piece of legislation in the History of the Republic. If it be true that a people can be prospered by so simple a method, then will the new Tariff lift our toiling millions out of the perils of penury and want, up into the happy realm of abundance. Were the Tariff Issue so clear and definite as above stated, it would of course have disappeared long ago from our political history. No question about that. But it is not. On the contrary, it is an issue so complex and involved, so mixed up and confused by the multiplied relations sustained even by the average citizen in the complex financial and industrial life of today, that after generations of discussion, we know but little more about the Tariff than we did at the beginning. The heroic and independent spirits of our "Sires of '76", would not have considered the toleration of so monstrous and extortionate a measure as the Fordney-McCumber Tariff for a single minute. Their fight was against Taxation: we fight/or Taxation. But the real facts in the case-and the dire consequences to the consuming public - were far easier to see then than they are today. Amidst the complexities of our modern civilization, the fact as to who pays and who gets - as to who are the Tariff's beneficiaries and who its victims-can now be disguised, confused and hidden in a thousand different ways. The Author's interest in this subject began far back in boyhood days, when a student in the High School. More years of my life have been given to the study of the theory and the effects of a Protective Tariff-and of that universal thing, called Trade, which the Tariff seeks to obstruct-than to any other one problem connected with the general welfare. Added to these years of study and investigation has been the advantage of presenting the Tariff to Lyceum and Chautauqua audiences-composed of men, women and children. Long ago, from this most valuable experience, I learned that the thing most needed by the people in order to understand just what the Tariff is, how it works, and whom it benefits, is not Argument but Analysis-a division into classes of the persons and things affected at each step in the unfolding of the problem. The sole aim and purpose of the TARIFF PRIMER is to clarify and simplify the Tariff Issue. The method of working has been simply to analyze, and then classify in opposite groups, all the elements in each stage of the problem-taking them up carefully, just one at a time. A classification once made, or a principle once clearly established, is never abandoned. From the beginning to the end of the book I trust the reader will find that all the lines of reasoning run clear and straight. My endeavor has been to fully and logically think out each problem for itself; seeking always to find the principle involved, using details and statistics only for illustration. Thus do we. advance steadily from the first chapter to the last, following the definite plan of taking up and discussing just one thing at a time, always striving to so clearly and definitely state facts and conditions that the reader can think them out for himself-and find pleasure and entertainment in doing it. The cartoons and illustrations have been carefully designed in order to give the reader the imagery, the mental pictures, the concrete symbols, absolutely necessary for the mastery of the subject. Realizing that at least 80% of all our knowledge comes thru the eyes, an abundance of charts and diagrams has also been used, based wholly on Official Government Statistics.