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To: Ditto
with UNequal taxes, tariffs & disparate treatment in courts, congress & the administrative portion of the government.

for example, the government placed a TAX and a export tarriff on RAW COTTON, saying that every grower was being equally treated/taxed, while knowing that NO cotton was grown in the north.

otoh, FINISHED yard goods, made from that same cotton, were NOT TAXED and/or subject to the export controls.the finished yard goods were made in northern textile mills!<P.free dixie,sw

122 posted on 01/15/2004 9:10:05 AM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
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To: stand watie; Non-Sequitur; WhiskeyPapa; x
with UNequal taxes, tariffs & disparate treatment in courts, congress & the administrative portion of the government.

for example, the government placed a TAX and a export tarriff on RAW COTTON, saying that every grower was being equally treated/taxed, while knowing that NO cotton was grown in the north.

Do you just make this stuff up as your go along? Show us some record of your imaginary Export Tax. When was it inacted? What was the rate? And what color is the sky in your world?

128 posted on 01/15/2004 10:15:55 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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