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To: kiryandil
Because manufactured goods were not produced in the South, they had to either be imported or shipped down from the North. Either way, a large expense, be it shipping fees or the federal tariff, was added to the price of manufactured goods only for Southerners. Because importation was often cheaper than shipping from the North, the South paid most of the federal tariffs.

That makes very little sense. Consumers in the South paid shipping costs. So did consumers in Ohio and Illinois and Minnesota and Vermont and anywhere else where the goods were sent after they were manufactured. So everyone in all parts of the country paid a premium for goods protected by tariffs and also paid shipping costs to get the goods from the point of manufacture to the point of consumption. And since the large majority of the population, read consumers, was not in the South then claim that the South paid most of the tariff still makes no sense.

It's economics, which makes peoples' eyes glaze over, yours apparently included.

No, it's just another unsourced claim we're supposed to take at face value and which makes no sense when looked at it objectively.

368 posted on 01/26/2015 4:33:33 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
No, it's just another unsourced claim we're supposed to take at face value and which makes no sense when looked at it objectively.

Yes, just another "unsourced claim", like you claimed in your post about the conversation between Captain Hillyar and Captain Raphael Semmes.

You know, the post where you made a claim to buttress your argument, were shown that you were wrong, refused to admit that you were wrong, and then went on to slime the poster who graciously tried to save your face with a retort of "90% of what you've posted to date is bullsh*t and the rest flat ain't true".

Your posts aren't worth doodley-squat, Doodle. I think we know who's guilty of "90% of what you've posted to date is bullsh*t and the rest flat ain't true", and that would be YOU, dear. :)

369 posted on 01/26/2015 4:48:45 AM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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