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This is exactly why our founding fathers chose to fund the federal government by tariffs and state taxes. They knew, based on their experience under the Articles of Confederation that foreign governments would always have a better lobby in the capital than the US taxpayers. That entire balancing act was thrown off in 1913 when the 16th amendment was passed allowing the feds to tax individual citizens directly.
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[–] Dfens ago
This is exactly why our founding fathers chose to fund the federal government by tariffs and state taxes. They knew, based on their experience under the Articles of Confederation that foreign governments would always have a better lobby in the capital than the US taxpayers. That entire balancing act was thrown off in 1913 when the 16th amendment was passed allowing the feds to tax individual citizens directly.