[WhiskeyPapa]

Instead of a crumbling North it was the south that was broken, the south which was bankrupted, the south which turned to protectionist tariffs and confiscatory income tax rates of their own.

Yeah, still didn't work.

Lee complains that the CSA congress can only sit, chew tobacco and eat peanuts, "while my army starves", while President Lincoln reports, "Our resources are unexhausted, and as we believe, are inexhaustible."

Walt

[Non-Sequitur]

Well when the value of your currency is approximately the same as toilet paper then you can tax at whatever rate you want and you still won't get anywhere.

[andy_card]

Not only were Northern resources effectively inexhaustible, they weren't even tried. All the while we were suppressing the Insurrection, we were building one of the greatest wonders in the history of the world, the Trans-Continental Railroad. Imagine us completing the Apollo Program in the middle of the Second World War for a comparison. The so-called CSA was a joke, and the Lost Cause was an imbecilic cause worth losing. Thankfully it never had a chance of working in the first place.