Tariffs and Other Taxes in Broadway Shows by Jonathan Mandell

The president of the United States puts a fifty percent tariff on all imported cheese, which leads to war…with Switzerland. That's the premise of "Strike Up the Band," the first of a trio of Broadway musicals in the early 1930s with songs by George and Ira Gershwin that were intended as lighthearted political satires. Given...

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