Acually, if you look at tariff payments, they were mostly being paid in the northern states.
That makes the rest of your rant false, and you delusional.
“Acually, if you look at tariff payments, they were mostly being paid in the northern states. That makes the rest of your rant false, and you delusional.”
They were collected in both Northern and Southern ports, but WHERE they were paid (collected) is irrelevant; it’s WHO paid them that is the issue. Refer to my analogy of St. Louis and the collection of income taxes. There are several IRS collection centers (St. Louis used to be a major one, but Kansas City has now taken over its operations): Atlanta; Cincinnati; Austin; Ogden, UT; Andover, MA; Fresno, CA. Now, are you telling me that all those filers whose collection center was, say, Ogden, UT, didn’t actually pay those taxes, but rather Ogden did? Now, who is delusional?