[Remember_Salamis]

First off, I'm a Yankee who merely understands history. In the decades that preceded the Civil War, over 75% of all revenue came from Southern States (sometimes as high as 90%). Southern States were forced to buy either (1)Northern goods and inflated prices, or (2) imported goods with a massive tariff. Those Tariff revenues were then funneled back into subsidizing Northern Industry.

[muawiyah]

Well, "protecting it" ~ the gross value of Northern industrial production far exceeded the taxes received by the US government from all sources.

Remember, the US government used to be kind of small ~ Newhampshiresque in fact.

The point I was making was that Southerners got even with the North with the imposition of a national income tax.