[DiogenesLamp]

In what universe? Ignoring for the moment that eminent domain allows government to take private property for public use, doesn't the Constitution require the government to pay "just compensation"?

Pretty hard to pay someone who keeps running away and turning their back every time you attempt to pay them.

Doesn't any rule of law require payment first and then possession?

They paid for it a dozen times over. The vast bulk of the Federal budget for years had been payed by the Southern states. The Northern states only contributed about 25% of the total Federal budget. The South paid the rest.

And don't start your "back end of the Horse instead of the front" argument. The money going in was the same money coming out. (As European goods.)

[DoodleDawg]

Pretty hard to pay someone who keeps running away and turning their back every time you attempt to pay them.

Which would be a shame if true. But since no attempt to pay was made then it's just more of your opinion.

The vast bulk of the Federal budget for years had been payed by the Southern states. The Northern states only contributed about 25% of the total Federal budget. The South paid the rest

So you keep claiming.

And don't start your "back end of the Horse instead of the front" argument. The money going in was the same money coming out. (As European goods.)

Heaven forbid. Facts are wasted on you anyway.