Mises Daily
Author:
F.W. Taussig
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[ The Tariff History of the United States (1892; 2010)] The Civil War revolutionized the financial methods of the United States. A new monetary system was created, and tax resources before undreamed of were resorted to, at first timorously, in the end with a rigor that hardly knew bounds. The tariff, which had long been the sole source of