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Once again, here is that graphic showing which cities paid how much to Federal Revenues:

Incorrect. The graphic shows which cities were *COLLECTING* the money, but the South was paying 75-85% of it. As I keep telling you, the laws were jiggered to funnel almost all import traffic into New York where the Robber Baron crony capitalists who controlled Washington DC could get their cut.

The South was paying for the vast bulk of the European trade, but the money was funneled into New York.

Which laws required ships to unload their cargos in New York or Boston instead of Charleston or New Orleans.

As I keep telling you, the laws were jiggered to funnel almost all import traffic into New York where the Robber Baron crony capitalists who controlled Washington DC could get their cut.

The fact that you actually believe the crap you post has always be a source of amazement to me.

So let me see if I have this correct. Ships come from Europe bearing imported goods, sail into New York, unload, pay the tariff, load onto a different ship, sail to the Southern ports, and unload again. In the mean time those European ships, having unloaded in New York, then sail to southern ports empty in order to load up with cotton and sail back to Europe. And that makes sense to you?

Incorrect. The graphic shows which cities were *COLLECTING* the money, but the South was paying 75-85% of it. As I keep telling you, the laws were jiggered to funnel almost all import traffic into New York where the Robber Baron crony capitalists who controlled Washington DC could get their cut. The South was paying for the vast bulk of the European trade, but the money was funneled into New York.

Ding! Exactly correct. The parallel would be today claiming that NY generates some large percentage of GDP. No it doesn't. They money flows through there. A lot is collected from the banks via various taxes and fees. They didn't generate that wealth. Take them away and a new finance center could be erected fairly quickly. Take away the vast vast hinterland that generates all that economic activity and NY would have its balls chopped off and would never recover. It was the same then as TONS of even NORTHERN newspapers were screaming. The PC Revisionists never have a good answer for that one. "Tariffs were collected in NY". LOLOLOL!!!! Does anybody with even a rudimentary understanding of economics think New York paid those tariffs? If Wal-Mart has a ship full of goods land in the busiest port in America, Long Beach California, does anybody think the city of Long Beach or the state of California pays the tariff? Do they do so out of the goodness of their hearts and because of their deep love of Wal-Mart? You'd have to be willfully blind to think so.