“Wow. Somehow the Lincoln Administration managed to stagger along without resorting to such taxes. Kind of makes you wonder what the confederate IRS would be like today had the South won their rebellion, doesn’t it?’
Oh, OK, you may have missed this. The north was industrialized and the south was agrarian. Therefore, Lincoln would have had a different resource base to tax than did the Confederacy. I’m surprised you didn’t know that. Makes your statement sound kinda stupid. Might want to brush up on the basics.
By comparison maybe. But look at the census data. For every town and city dweller in the North there were a five who lived on a farm. Both were primarily agrarian societies.
Therefore, Lincoln would have had a different resource base to tax than did the Confederacy.
He did indeed. He had an economy to generate tax revenue from. Imports to collect tariffs on. A solid government that would allow for issuing debt. The U.S. wasn't the basket case the confedercy had become very early in their rebellion. So I suppose that Davis had to grab what he could get in whatever way he could get it.