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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

remembers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

...you're still here?..it's over, go home!..

...go!..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whoah, even Ben Stein knows this was a bad idea!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

It is pretty hilarious that he said these lines, played a genius in TV and movies for decades, then became a conservative nut job.