[PistolPaknMama]

Common sense will also tell you that 1/4 of the people were not providing 3/4 of the revenue. But lies are the currency of the "southern heritage".

How would common sense tell me that? 1/4 of the people paid 84% of the taxes in the year 2000. I don't find this hard to believe at all.

Name calling is the currency of liberals who have no facts.

[Non-Sequitur]

How would common sense tell me that? 1/4 of the people paid 84% of the taxes in the year 2000. I don't find this hard to believe at all.

But comparisons between the systems of taxation between 1860 and 2003 aren't valid. In 1860 the government was funded almost exclusively by tariffs. That was a consumption tax in almost it's purest form. For the south to have paid 84% of the tariff it would have had to consume 84% of the imported goods or 84% of the output of the industries protected by the tariff. How was that possible?

[WhiskeyPapa]

Common sense will also tell you that 1/4 of the people were not providing 3/4 of the revenue. But lies are the currency of the "southern heritage".

How would common sense tell me that? 1/4 of the people paid 84% of the taxes in the year 2000. I don't find this hard to believe at all.

Common sense would tell you that if you were honest.

It's nonsense. The record shows that 95% of the tariff revenue came through northern ports. Two ports in the south actually LOST money. It cost more to operate them than the amount of money they generated.

Facts are inconvenient, aren't they?

You deserve to be called names because this has been posted directly to you before and you still spout the lies.

Walt

[stand watie]

EXACTLY!

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