The circulars created formidable bureaucratic regulations to collect the tariff, with those importing goods via railways facing particularly onerous requirements.
So exactly what were those "onerous" requirements? Well, for one a railroad operator had to present not one but (gasp!) three lists of what his cargo contained at the revenue post! I mean, after all - how dare they require freight shippers to supply their cargo lists at the customs post upon entering a country! Why they should be able to simply march on in, hand a small bag of coins that they themselves have concluded to be sufficient for the duties, and continue on their merry way. Cause we certainly can't burden them with that "onerous" requirement of actually having to provide paper copies of their shipping cargo!
But wait - it got worse. The cargo had to be in a separate hold from the passengers! After all, how dare they not let the train operaters throw them in all together! And how dare we tell airlines today that they must put their cargo in a separate hold from the passengers up above. Why, by golly, there's room for a crate of chickens under every seat plus three pineapples and a box of coal in every overhead bin!
And if that were not outrage enough, get a load of what those evil confederate bureaucrats with their onerous regulations did next. They stuck a lock on the cargo container and (oh horror!) put it in a warehouse! After all, why would any shipper want to pay his tariff fee with anything other than cash on hand? Why on earth would he want to warehouse the stuff thereby giving him time to sell his merchandise and then pay the tariff as it was taken out of the warehouse and its lock removed? I mean, doesn't every merchant travel around the country with a large coffee can of gold under his mattress just ready to pay tariffs?
And then they even made the poor overburdoned importers obtain a bond pledging they would pay the duties when they removed their goods from that evil onerous warehousing system that let them import their goods closer to the margin and with greater economic benefit without having to carry large ammounts of advance cash on their person!
But get this - the poor merchants were not the only ones who had to face the "onerous" regulators. The customs agents dared to impose themselves upon ordinary passengers by conducting inspections of bags for smuggled goods! One can only imagine the pains those passengers must have suffered. After all, can you even fathom the horros that would be imposed upon travellers if, say for example, they had to declare their bag's contents to be free of dutiable goods and, if reasonable suspicion indicated it was necessary, submit it for inspection to the airport customs agent on every single international flight into the United States? Who knows - in all the horrors of that policy those poor overburdened travellers would even have to fill out a form! Such a system would be an outrage, I dare say! And if the United States Congress ever tried imposed that burdensome and onerous weight on the backs of international travellers why, why I'd get my senator to filibust...oh wait. We already do have that system in place. Nevermind...
Hmmmm? Seems to me that on Friday your dismissed them because they were "economists" (like Tommy DiLusional) not historians. Now you say they don't know anything about economics because you don't agree with their interpertations of Confederate customs inspections which even if they are wrong, has nothing to do with the question at hand.
But with all of your rants and attacking the messanger bluster, you have done absolutly nothing to show where they are wrong in saying that the Confederate tariff was indeed a protectionist tariff which blows the legs off the Lost Cause Myth that the war was about tariffs, not slavery.
You are grasping at straws. The war was about slavery, not tariffs.