If the politicians were doing a good job with the money we sent them they wouldn’t need to keep trying to raise taxes. Their wanting more money after we already send trillions is proof of their failure.
The people who want Trump’s head on a stake because he paid multiple women to deny they had an affair were the ones who said Bill Clinton should face no consequences for perjury in front of a federal grand jury and urging Monica to file a false sworn affidavit with the court because he was just trying to hide his sex life.
We should be pushing for all states to do what Nebraska and Maine do. I’m pretty sure the only democrats we would have had in the past 43 years would have been both Clinton terms and Obama in 2008, Romney would have won in 2012.
Northern interests could have bought up plantations, and other people in the South could have bought up land as well.
Slavery was the #1 reason for the South secession, but it wasn't the only reason. The #2 issue for the 1860 election was called the Morrill Tariff, and tariffs were a huge issue in the decades leading up to the Civil War. The South constantly complained that the tariffs were designed to protect Northern industrial interests while the Southern raw materials industries had to compete directly against the rest of the world. The money the tariffs collected was used to build things like an expansive rail system up in the North and the South comparatively got left out.