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I’m just like my country/ I’m young, scrappy, and hungry/ And I’m not throwing away the tariffs owed on imported goods when the country is in such dire financial peril
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…and so I propose a system of revenue cutters, judiciously stationed– / I’m sorry? / Is this all you have? / We were expecting a rap or something / Shouldn’t it rhyme? / August 4, 1790: Alexander Hamilton creates what would later become the Coast Guard