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.
O brother. Who did the South pay those taxes to? Why did they pay them when they weren’t required to? Were they stupid? And why was the vast majority collected in the North and not the South?
So was the 72% from the South + the the 28% from the North the total money in the United States? That’s all there was. Noting for food, clothing, shelter, trains, horses, boats, books, schools, teachers … nothing for any of that?
Your Lost Cause illness is getting worse.