Tariffs Once Paid America’s Bills—And They Can Again: John Gardner

"External Revenue Service was what our founding fathers put in place. The Internal Revenue Service, which targets our citizens, is the system we live in now.

And I ask the audience and the economists and academics: what is a more free system for American citizens? What is more free - that you could be put in jail for not categorizing your expenditure deduction right, paying 30-r0% of your wages to the federal government, or a system that requires a toll to enter the greatest consumer market in the world? America.

Two-thirds of our GDP is consumer spending. People aren't lining up to get into the Suriname market or Panama.

They're lining up to get in America because we can spend money on high end goods. And so, in medieval times, the city of London would charge a bridge toll to come in and set up your stall and sell your wares.

You'd pay that toll because you wanted access to that market. You can set your stall up out in Sherwood Forest, but you might get robbed and nobody's coming by there to buy stuff.

So, to get into the first class market, you pay a toll, and that's what tariffs are. Every American needs to understand and get behind President Trump on this, and stop listening to the business media with their whining and whinging and opposition to this.

They need to really focus and see how this was how America functioned for a very long time- the majority of its history."

- John Gardner, author of “Manufacture Local”

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