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To: Non-Sequitur
Nobody is claiming that Iowa or Kansas or Vermont were big consumers of imported goods.

What about Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky? Or why not Illinois, Minnesota, and Nebraska? The point I am making is that your evidence is economically incomplete and therefore flawed. If you wish to make the claim that you do, you should be able to evidence it with statistics pertaining to goods consumption itself. You do not offer that and instead post only port of entry tax collection stats, which are insufficient as evidence.

297 posted on 02/21/2003 2:37:17 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
If you wish to make the claim that you do, you should be able to evidence it with statistics pertaining to goods consumption itself.

The claim has been made by others, not me. The southern states paid the overwhelming majority of the tariff, you all say. I think it's reasonable to question that claim since so little of the actual tariff income came from southern ports. And I think it's reasonable to ask why the goods didn't come to them if they were such good customers.

300 posted on 02/21/2003 2:43:12 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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