[mac_truck]

One of the first things the Confederate government did was legislate their own set of tariffs on a wide range of products and staples, including those from coming the United States. The average southerner who purchased manufactured goods (nails, shovels, cloth, etc.) made in the US in 1860 faced a nex tax on these same goods in 1862.

How long would it take for the southern yoeman to figure out that his sweat was subsidizing the slavocracy?

[riverdawg]

“One of the first things the Confederate government did was legislate their own set of tariffs ...”

Of course; it was wartime, and tariffs were the principal means of raising government revenue throughout most of the 1800’s. An income tax in the Union raised alot of revenue from 1862 until 1872, but was highly unpopular. Not until the 1880’s were tariffs surpassed, by excise taxes of various types, as the main source of government revenue.