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To: Carry_Okie
the South was paying 70% of the taxes

Care to break that down and clarify? Are you referring to the fact that the gentility feared manufacturing, so they had to import every single item they didn't grow or whip?

17 posted on 12/07/2010 11:51:18 AM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9
Care to break that down and clarify? Are you referring to the fact that the gentility feared manufacturing, so they had to import every single item they didn't grow or whip?

A rhetorical question I am not going to dignify beyond this response.

71 posted on 12/07/2010 12:47:30 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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