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A Little Video Tour of Tryon, North Carolina

Let's make today's unpopular Pipe Cottage statement: the federal government is instituting protectionist tariffs that will benefit a few industries at the expense of others. (And for those who want to further study why protectionist tariffs are a bad idea, read John C. Calhoun's opposition to the Tariff of 1828.) I don't think many people know how tariffs work. But let me offer a simple history lesson. The purpose of tariffs at the point of the Founding was to simply fund the central government…

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"But such is God's mercy towards the vessels of mercy which He has prepared for glory, that even the first age of man, that is, infancy, which submits without any resistance to the flesh, and the second age, which is called boyhood, and which has not yet understanding enough to undertake this warfare, and therefore yields to almost every…

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My favorite part of this podcast was Tim giggling in the background. We are taking our anxiety pills on air and our mics are tin cans. This is exactly who we need to be talking with since Gen Z is the future whether you like it or not. Thanks Tim for being the change!

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