Sorry. Great misunderstanding here on what tariffs are, widely shared by neo-confederates who think we taxed exported cotton to oppress the South in the 1850s.
Fact: Tariffs are and always have been on imports, never on exports.
This is primarily because the Constitution specifically prohibits taxes on exports.
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 5. No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
Thanks very much! I know nothing about tariffs other than it’s a tax. Thanks for pointing out tariffs were one-way so I can stop kicking that can down the road.
I looked up the Tax of Abomination of 1828 - a tariff on imported British goods to protect Northern industrialism, which negatively impacted cotton exports from the South to England.
How was Northern protectionism - of their intent on becoming the industrial capital and policy capital (coming on the heels of wholesale exportation of northern slaves to the South to make way for boatloads of indentured servants) - not just a continuation of putting the South to heel?
The North was basically saying to the South, here, take our slaves off our hands, stay agricultural, but you only sell to the North, and only buy from the North, who will dictate prices, and, by the way, we’ll be the population and policy center for the States because we’ll be encouraging massive immigration so we have more people in our factory cities? Oh, and one more thing, after we export all our slaves to you and dance all the way to the bank with the proceeds of sales, then we’ll declare war on you for having those exact same slaves?
I’m not seeing how the impact on the South was a “neo”-confederate misinterpretation? What did I miss?