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To: DiogenesLamp
I can write stuff, but I can't make you read it. Since you didn't read it the first time, I don't see much point in re-iterating it.

Oh humor me. How could tariffs be such a terrible burden for Southerners if they paid such a small percentage of it. Point me to your reply if you don't want to write it again.

133 posted on 07/22/2015 11:27:59 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
How could tariffs be such a terrible burden for Southerners if they paid such a small percentage of it.

How can slavery be such a burden if nobody is forced to do anything?

Makes as much sense.

It has yet to be established that the Southern burden of tariffs was a "small percentage" of it. Where do you get this notion?

Walter Williams says they paid 75% of the costs. By all rights, with them having a quarter of the population, they should have only paid a quarter of the costs.

I don't think William's claim has yet been successfully debunked. I know what the South was exporting to Europe, I don't know what the North was exporting to Europe. Do you?

182 posted on 07/22/2015 12:51:31 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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