Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Pass the whiskey, please




My ironic comment on "Report on Manufactures", or perhaps on something else entirely... 

I don't know who “Alexander Hamilton” might have been, but probably a lowly clerk droning for some liberal-dominated Congress. Most of the contents of his filed report (as in filed away) would make modern economists smile rather wryly. I mean, come on, “internal improvements”, federal taxes, protectionism…LOL, yeah, as if that would work. It's not a co-incidence that his near-contemporary Adam Smith achieved everlasting fame and fortune, while nobody today remember Mr Clerk “Hamilton”. Or should I call him "comrade"? Everyone knows that AMERICA became a great nation through free trade, especially in whiskey. I wouldn't be too surprised if our budding socialist wanted to tax that, too!

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