Total and utter BS. Ever hear of excise taxes, What about the "Whiskey Rebellion?" Of course you heard about them. You are just chosing to ignore them because you want to promulgate some sort of bizaire thesis. I understand that there is an opening in the Emory U. history department. Maybe you should apply for the job. There is sort of a tradition of making up your "facts" there. BTW sould we change the US flag because it represents racist laws today?
Total and utter BS. Ever hear of excise taxes, What about the "Whiskey Rebellion?"
Not a tax. If you didn't drink whiskey, you didn't pay a tax. There were no federal taxes prior to the ACW.
Two of the Whiskey Rebellion instigators were convicted of treason against the United States in 1795. President Washington pardoned them.
"Antebellum Americans had been one of the most lightly taxed peoples on earth. And the per capita burden in the South had been only half that in the free states. Except for tariff duties-which despite Southern complaints were lower in the late 1850's than they had been for more than 50 years- virtually all taxes were collected by state and local governments."
--Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson
You don't -know- the history, or you are willfully misrepresenting it.
Walt