{"id":5137,"date":"2008-10-22T05:14:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2008-10-21T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T03:37:19","slug":"how-alexander-hamilton-the-father-of-american-rotarian-socialism-gave-birth-to-the-present-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5137\/how-alexander-hamilton-the-father-of-american-rotarian-socialism-gave-birth-to-the-present-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How Alexander Hamilton, the father of American Rotarian Socialism, gave birth to the present economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo writing at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:<\/a><\/p>\n

Hamilton was the intellectual leader of the group of men at the time of the founding who wanted to import the system of British mercantilism and imperialistic government to America. As long as they were on the paying side of British mercantilism and imperialism, they opposed it and even fought a revolution against it. But being on the collecting side was altogether different. It’s good to be the king, as Mel Brooks might say.<\/p>\n

It was Hamilton who coined the phrase “The American System” to describe his economic policy of corporate welfare, protectionist tariffs, central banking, and a large public debt, even though his political descendants, the Whig Party of Henry Clay, popularized the slogan. He was not well schooled in the economics of his day, as is argued by such writers as John Steele Gordon. Unlike Jefferson, who had read, understood, and supported the free-market economic ideas of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Baptiste Say (whom Jefferson invited to join the faculty of the University of Virginia), Richard Cantillon, and Turgot (a bust of whom still sits in the entrance to Monticello), Hamilton either ignored or was completely unaware of these ideas. Instead, he repeated the mercantilist myths and superstitions that had been concocted by apologists for the British mercantilist state, such as Sir James Steuart.<\/p>\n

Hamilton championed the cause of a large public debt — which he called “a public blessing” — not to establish the credit of the US government or to finance any particular public works projects but for the Machiavellian idea of tying the interests of the more affluent to the state: being government bondholders, they would, he believed, then support all of his grandiose plans for heavy taxation and a government much larger than what was called for in the Constitution. He was right. They, along with Wall Street investment bankers who have marketed the government’s bonds, have always provided effective political support for bigger government and higher taxes. That is why Wall Street investment bankers were first in line for a bailout, administered by one of Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo writing at the Ludwig von Mises Institute: Hamilton was the intellectual leader of the group of men at the time of the founding who wanted to import the system of British mercantilism and imperialistic government to America. As long as they were on the paying side of British mercantilism and imperialism, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17938,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17938\/overnight-news-the-limited-liability-corporation-is-the-rope-by-which-capitalism-hung-itself\/","url_meta":{"origin":5137,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: \u201cThe limited liability corporation is the rope by which Capitalism hung\u00a0itself.\u201d","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Predatory traders are not new. 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