Posted on 09/29/2020 12:50:40 AM PDT by MacNaughton
This article is not an original source, but describes the taxation/public expenditure dynamic between the northern and southern states generally.
https://www.marottaonmoney.com/protective-tariffs-the-primary-cause-of-the-civil-war/
The 75% - 25% dynamic is a memory from a 1974 economic history course in my graduate education. The course was taught by a “northern professor” who held that slavery was an important cause of the war and he did not consider the tax/expenditure dynamic to be controversial from a historical perspective. I’m sorry to not have sources closer to original data, but given more time and attention could probably locate more nearly original sources. Marotta - the primary author of the article - is a money manager (not a Southern partisan) with a genuine interest in economic history.
Democrats are still seceded From the Union it’s why they want to go back to their good old days.
Thanks! That’s fascinating.
If it ain't true, it ain't a fact!
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Have you told Barr? He seems to not be able to find a single crime these seditionists are pulling off. </s>
Excellent points.
Why secede when you can take over the whole shooting match? The Dems aren’t looking to secede anywhere, although that’s certainly what the vote distributions look like. Succession isn’t their game at all. They want to run the whole, exploiting the unfavored classes in favor of the protected ones both as sources of wealth and a manifestation of the cynically named “social justice”. They don’t want their promised equality for all, they want to be judges with a heavy thumb on the scales. They want what every communist New Class always wants, personal power and wealth protected by an impenetrable shield of pretended moral virtue. They don’t even pretend otherwise anymore. The only real question left has to do with the nature of the inevitable collision and how many people it hurts.
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