You can stop trying to pretend there is a difference. You just can't stand the fact that the South was paying the bills, and the North was mostly riding for free.
A tax on imports is the exact same thing as a tax on exports!
You don't get imports without exports to pay for them!
How about you stop denying reality and explain how the North got it's hands on the money *IF* they were the ones buying the imports?
It could not be done without taking it from the South somehow.
You can scream it from the rooftops but you are wrong. A tax on imports is not the same as a tax on exports. And what the hell do you mean that the North got their hands on all the money? The tariff raised federal revenues. The money didn’t go into northern pockets.
Your Lost Cause mania is way over the top. Way over.