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If I want to know who paid the tariffs I look at the imports and I look at where they were collected at. Over 95% of the tariffs were paid in Northern ports. If all those goods were destined for southern consumers then why weren't they shipped directly to the southern ports? It's a very simple question, one which you can't seem to answer. So why don't you graph it out, post the prices, and show some evidence that the burden of the tariffs lay with the south. Until then stop shooting your mouth off on claims you can't back up.

If I want to know who paid the tariffs I look at the imports and I look at where they were collected at.

That is precisely the problem with your claim. When you look there you are looking at incomplete data and therefore in the wrong place. The economic costs of a tariff are NOT calculated strictly in the physical revenue collection, and especially not when the tariff is protectionist in nature. To see who bears those costs requires more economic data and mathematical analysis of that data. I've told you this repeatedly and asked you to seek out that data yet you refuse to do so and instead you knowingly post the same misleading and inconclusive data. Why could that be, other than my strong suspicion that you are trying to perpetrate a fraud with it?

If all those goods were destined for southern consumers then why weren't they shipped directly to the southern ports?

Why would they necessarily need to be if the tariff's very nature was to discourage their importation and instead ship domestic goods south? It's a simple matter of economics. You cannot weigh the entirity of a tariff by simply listing physical locations of revenue collection. To do so would be foolish and any credentialed economist would tell you so.

So why don't you graph it out, post the prices, and show some evidence that the burden of the tariffs lay with the south.

If you like. I recall attempting to guide you into doing this with me previously. You refused then and continued ignorantly spouting misinformation. If you wish to consider this further may I have your assurance that you are truly interested in an examination of the tariff's burdens and costs? If so, please indicate it and indicate the specific item of trade you wish to consider and we'll procede from there.

Until then stop shooting your mouth off on claims you can't back up.

To cease doing so would require that I were doing so in the first place, which is simply not the case. Other than pointing out that your little charade of listing tax collection locations and calling it economics doesn't make it so, I have made no claims for which you may lodge your grievance against. Hence your grievance is itself as unfounded as the fraudulent stat pushing you promote in place of real economic trade analysis.