A special one-year tax to help pay for building new schools would serve as an example of how local taxes support the economy. Public school funding is usually based on local taxes and therefore, this example is most likely exemplary of this.
After WWI and during the Great Depression the US tried to be an Isolationist nation. They put out tariffs so people would buy US (forgetting that the rest of the world was still devastated by WWI (economies included)).
