Tell me again… how was it that the South paid 75% of federal taxes. Show me the data.
As I already told you, "paid" is misleading. "Produced" is more accurate, because you don't have to get into the details of who got what for import products.
It is unquestionable that the South *PRODUCED* 75% of the material that was taxed, from which the tariff's produced the Federal revenue.
As I told you before, secession cuts off that money, because the CSA would trade directly with Europe and would no longer need, or be bound to, because of biased federal laws, to Northern shipping, banking, warehousing, insurance, etc companies.
The South would have taken over all the money making enterprises associated with their export trade. All of it. And they would have been buying European products with their dollars instead of Northern products which they were forced to buy because of protectionist laws.
The Northerners would not only have lost the Southern business in shipping products too and from Europe, their factories would have lost the South as customers, because without the Federal protectionist laws, the European goods were cheaper.
Peaceful Southern secession was an absolute financial disaster for the powerful men in the North.
And that's why there was a war.