Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: DiogenesLamp
They paid 72% of the taxes. That's why the nation wanted to keep them.

Again, you are nuts. There was no tax on exports. The planters were not paid in British pounds. They were paid in dollars by the Cotton Factors who actually sold the crop. Those Factors moslty represented Northern banks. Your beloved slave driving planters paid little or no tax, and again I say without a doubt, you are nuts!

136 posted on 03/16/2026 1:34:03 PM PDT by Ditto
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 135 | View Replies ]


To: Ditto
They were paid in dollars by the Cotton Factors who actually sold the crop.

I am actually surprised. You did enough research to learn that much. Good for you! You might have learned that the North completely controlled the cotton trade. Because they did.

But you still don't understand economics. A tax on imports is virtually the same thing as a tax on exports. It's the same value being taxed whether it is exchanged for profit, or the profit taxed.

Same stuff.

137 posted on 03/16/2026 3:20:09 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 136 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson