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To: DoodleDawg
If the U.S. was so completely dependent on the South for tariff revenue then one would think that with the beginning of the war the federal revenue stream would dry up to nothing, wouldn't you?

Of course not. Are you saying all ports were southern ports? Did anyone tell New York?

516 posted on 01/27/2015 7:43:34 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
Of course not. Are you saying all ports were southern ports? Did anyone tell New York?

But according to your numerous posts on the subject, Southern consumers accounted for somewhere between 75% and 87% of the tariff revenue. In April 1861 that revenue stopped. U.S. tariff revenue in 1860 was, if I recall correctly, roughly $50 million dollars. By your sources that amount should have dropped to somewhere between $12.5 million and $6.5 million. Yet it grew exponentially, even with a protective tariff meant to discourage imports rather than encourage them. So who was buying all those imports? And why didn't they buy them before the war?

518 posted on 01/27/2015 7:51:41 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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