The Tariff Bill
Handout 3-3
Roles
|Role Card A: Supporters of a High Tariff |
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|Key Question |
|Should Congress approve a high tariff? |
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|Position |
|You support the proposal for a high tariff. |
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|Arguments |
|England is “dumping” cheap manufactured goods in the U.S. in an attempt to put American factories out of business. |
|High tariffs will make foreign goods cost more thereby encouraging Americans to buy American goods. |
|High tariffs are needed to protect American made products from cheaper competition. |
|America may have achieved political independence in 1783 but it is still dependent on foreign nations for its manufactured goods. |
|England is shutting the United States out of trade with the West Indies. |
|Role Card B: Opponents of a High Tariff |
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|Key Question |
|Should Congress approve a high tariff? |
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|Position |
|You are opposed to the proposal for a high tariff. |
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|Arguments |
|If Congress passes a high tariff, people will evade paying the taxes by smuggling goods into the country just as they did when |
|Great Britain imposed duties prior to the War for Independence. |
|Higher American tariffs would make it more difficult for exporters (mainly southern farmers) to sell their surplus goods in other |
|countries because other countries will raise taxes on American exports in retaliation for our increase in taxes on their products. |
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|A high tariff would mean that the people who live in areas with little manufacturing (especially the south) would have to pay |
|higher prices for manufactured goods. |
|It is unconstitutional to tax one section of the country (the south) to benefit another section (the north). |
|Those involved in trade (merchants) will lose business if international trade is reduced by increasing taxes on foreign goods. |
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