[Ditto]

I am not going to go along with your attempt to pretend they didn't pay 72% of the taxes through your attempted misdirection of whether it was imports or exports. As I said, it's the same stuff. It was *THEIR* stuff, and therefore they paid the taxes to the government.

You are struggling buddy. How did the federal government tax their sales to Europeans? When the Yankees sold corn or wheat to Europe, they didn’t pay any taxes. But you insist the Southerners paid taxes on their cotton, tobacco and indigo sales to Europe. Who collected those taxes? I think anyone paying attention can see that you are full of manure.

[DiogenesLamp]

You are struggling buddy.

Well to quote Upton Sinclair:

‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’

In other words, if people really don't want to believe it, they will pretend to not believe it.

When the Yankees sold corn or wheat to Europe, they didn’t pay any taxes. But you insist the Southerners paid taxes on their cotton, tobacco and indigo sales to Europe. Who collected those taxes?

You can pretend you don't understand, but you aren't that stupid. You know it, and I know it too, so why don't you just stop pretending?

The South paid those taxes. The North did not pay them, because they had nothing to pay them with. Their exports only amounted to 28%, so they could only pay 28% of the taxes at most.