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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (21834)	2/27/2008 11:21:47 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224655

Religious groups pressured both the Pres & Congress to ban slavery during the mid-1800s. "Unc Tom's Cabin", John Brown and the "underground railroad" all helped fan the flames of relgious fervor against human slavery. They were civilized people, and recognized the hypocrisy of tolerating such a brutal form of labor within the newly minted land of equality.

To: longnshort who wrote (21834)	2/27/2008 12:07:14 PM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224655

That was a little before 1913, so there was no income tax. Was there a tobacco tax? I wonder where that fell.

To: longnshort who wrote (21834)	2/27/2008 12:39:32 PM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 224655

OK, I did not "know the south was paying 80% of the federal Budget" but all taxes fall on (are passed through to) users, so who was drinking the stuff on which there were tariffs? Was any exported? What other tariffs are you referring to? Farm products tariffs? Of course there are more farms and farm acreage in the south than in the north.

To: longnshort who wrote (21834)	2/27/2008 12:49:47 PM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224655

I was born and live in the south, both sides of my family lived in Lower Alabama (LA) during the Civil war. Very few of my relatives served in the Civil War. The ones that did only did so when the North invaded the south. A couple worked on steam ships in Mobile. IMO your attitude sucks, we deserved what we got. The fault lied with the stubborn and stupid plantation owner's. They controled the economy and politic's at the time. The South paid 80% because at the time the demand for cotton would support heavy tax's. There were few exports from the north, there was no income tax, so tax's came from sin tax's, and tax's on international trade.