[PeaRidge]

Two things here regarding your straw-man assertions. We are talking Southern economy, based on war or peace? You asked about how the South would run its economy.

Well you decided on a war economy. That would be entirely based on credit. The data I gave you was for a peace time economy. Second, apparently you don't do any reading, or you would have seen the tariff rate that was legislated.

[Non-Sequitur]

It's not me who was proposing the 'war time economy', it was the confederate congress when they passed legislation authorizing an army of 100,000 on March 5, 1861. That would require a considerably larger budget than that for the Federal army since that was less than 1/6th that size.

The tairiff rate was legislated? Well, duh. Same as up North. The confederate congress could have set it as high as they wanted to. But since you hold out the free trade zone stuff they would have had to find their money elsewhere.