[DoodleDawg]

Tariffs applied to the whole country not one region. Southerners who didn't like the tariff increase could have stayed in Congress and blocked it. The initial increase was from 17% overall (ad valorem), or 21% on dutiable items to about 26% overall or 36% on dutiable items. The tariff went up further later to pay for the war. And no, Southerners weren't paying 70% or more of the nation's taxes in 1860.

And correct me if I'm wrong but the tariff on exports was zero percent, not the 40% that Chuck claims.

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According to the Constitution, exports can't be taxed.

The Confederate Constitution would have allowed taxes on exports if 2/3 of both houses of Congress voted for them.

I guess they were expecting cotton exports would pay their government's bills.