[Ditto]

If the CSA didn’t have import tariffs, how would it have financed its government, much less a military?

They did have tariffs... as high as 25%.

Click here for the full list. It's pretty extensive.

[Sherman Logan]

I know that. I’m just saying that the CSA apologists seem to think the government could run forever on hot air, that taxes would not be necessary.

It’s my contention that if the CSA had broken away, taxes would of necessity been much higher in both it and the USA.