From page 99 of The Income Tax: Root of All Evil, by Old Right icon Frank Chodorov, a native of New York City, graduate of Columbia University, and one-time co-editor of The Freeman (with Albert Jay Nock): “States’ Rights became the battle cry of the South only because the planters felt the pinch of protective tariffs. No one would ever have heard of nullification and secession, and certainly not of war, if Calhoun’s plea for lower tariffs had been heeded . . .” Chodorov had the hyper-protectionist Lincoln administration pegged: “Pay Up or Die” was its fundamental ideology. The export-dependent … Continue reading Pay Up or Die