[4CJ]

If that is true then wouldn't one expect federal revenue to dry up once the rebellion began?

It did. Then picked back up as Yankees were forced to import products previously obtained duty-free from Southerners. It's simple economics.

[Non-Sequitur]

It did. Then picked back up as Yankees were forced to import products previously obtained duty-free from Southerners.

Obviously. The revenue collections didn't drop by 80% or more, which one would expect them to do if the South was accounting for that percentage of tariff revenue. And your claim that the North was forced to import goods previously obtained from the South cannot be true because ought-six claimed in reply 102 that the North was not a profitable market for Southern goods prior to the rebellion.

It's simple economics.

But more complex than you would like us to believe.