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To: plain talk

Neo-Confederate revisionism, that bit about taxes and tariffs has been shown to be a big lie.

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/weblogs/jackblog/2015/jun/21/confederates-speak-yes-we-fought-the-civil-war-ove/


174 posted on 06/18/2017 4:50:52 AM PDT by BeadCounter (Trump; most pro-life president ever.)
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To: BeadCounter
Neo-Confederate revisionism, that bit about taxes and tariffs has been shown to be a big lie.

No, the Union did indeed invade the South to collect the taxes and tariffs that they would have lost if the South had remained independent. That, and to make sure the South didn't steal the European trade away from New York.

238 Million dollars was a lot of money in 1860.

505 posted on 07/05/2017 3:21:14 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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