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To: DiogenesLamp
There was no “war” over money.

The South voted for the same Import Tariffs and the North. It was a voluntary tax. It's like you are saying, in today's tax terms, that the Lottery could be the reason for interstate war. After all, some guy in Illinois won Mega Millions, and the South sure bought a lot of Mega Millions Lottery tickets.

We know the reason for the illegal split, and it was solely slavery, according to the CSA’s most elite elected representatives.

80 posted on 08/01/2022 10:04:07 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind
There was no “war” over money.

It was only about money. It was never about anything else.

The South voted for the same Import Tariffs and the North.

They may have done in the 1820s and 1830s, but by the 1850s, they consistently voted to stop raising the tariffs because *THEY* were the ones who ended up paying most of them.

Northern tariffs ranged from 35% to 50%. Confederacy tariffs were about 13%.

So tell me, who likes to pay more taxes? Do you?

136 posted on 08/01/2022 11:20:38 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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