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To: DiogenesLamp
DiogenesLamp: "A dishonest point.
Where they were collected is very different from who paid for them.
I am not going to pursue the rest of your message."

Right, because your argument is 100% dishonest and any attempt to debate the point will only reveal that.

The fact is that you have no evidence whatever that anyone outside the ports where imported goods landed paid the tariffs on those imports.
Instead, you assert, as a matter of your Lost Cause religious faith, that those tariffs were "paid for" by Southerners.

They weren't, instead, those goods were distributed around the entire country and paid for by anyone who bought them.
Given the Southern population and economy, as I demonstrated in post #153 and elsewhere, in 1860 the South represented roughly 30% of the entire white population and economy, and so that, reasonably, is how much of the Federal revenues they paid for.

Plus, as I demonstrated in post #173, roughly half of all Federal construction spending went to Southern states, so your entire argument is a stinking pile of nonsense, FRiend.

And so what do you do about it?
Naturally, you lie and exaggerate.
You claim that "paid for" means 72% of US exports were "Southern Products" and those "paid for" imports, hence tariff revenues.

But you only get to 72% if you include as "Southern" exports from Union slave states, and if you exclude exports of California gold and Nevada silver.
You think these somehow don't belong as "Northern Products", but in reality, specie transfers were used to balance our trade books in exactly the same way as exports of "Southern Products".

Gold and silver were never "Southern Products".

178 posted on 04/10/2024 3:11:44 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK
Right, because your argument is 100% dishonest and any attempt to debate the point will only reveal that.

Not going to bother with you.

Tired of your magic show.

179 posted on 04/10/2024 9:04:51 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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