The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises…To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations
From Article 2, Section 8 of the US Constitution, 1789
The Congress shall have power,
The document is clear
To set and levy tariffs
On goods from far and near.
So Congress, do your duty;
Reclaim your sacred power;
Our immature Executive
Gets worse with every hour.
Back in the beginning
Tariffs were all we used
To finance our new country;
Seldom much abused.
Somewhere in our history,
Congress passed its power
To manage foreign commerce
To the President; it cowered.
Economy worsening every day
Markets crashing quickly,
Prices rise, the more we pay,
Employment sluggish, sickly.
Our trading partners horrified,
Our factories slowing down,
Congress, do your duty:
Rein in this raging clown.
Becca Balint, Bernie Sanders,
Peter Welch and All:
Act now: restore your power,
And save us from a fall.
Senators, congressmen, please heed the call:
Bob Dylan
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall,
For he who gets hurt will be he who has stalled:
There’s a battle outside and it’s raging;
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls,
For the times, they are a changing.