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<blockquote data-quote="HOSS" data-source="post: 1034929" data-attributes="member: 1863"><p>Follow the money. The upstart Republican Party had campaigned for several years on a platform of</p><p>what we now call "tax-and-spend." Prior to 1861, there was a certain amount of resistance to federal</p><p>taxation and federal spending. But an entire political party based on a tax-and-spend philosophy coming to</p><p>power was something new.</p><p>For any other political party, it would not have mattered if the Southern States were part of the Union or</p><p>independent. But, the new Republican Party favored taxing the South to spend in the North. Average</p><p>Southerners were outraged. After all, how much more could the agricultural South be expected to pay to</p><p>build up the industrialized North?</p><p>The South paid far more that its far share of taxes before the war. Lincoln may have wanted to "save the Union," because he knew that the North could not progress without the South. In 1840 the South paid 84% of the tariffs, rising to 87% in 1860. Shortly before Lincoln had become President the highest tariffs in US history were imposed. Just four Southern States–Virginia,North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia–paid 75% of all federal taxes. Just think, three out of every four dollars sent to Washington, D.C. were from just four Southern States and all the other Southern States contributed as well. Washington could not afford to lose the tax revenue. I think Lincoln actually made some comments about this when secession began.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HOSS, post: 1034929, member: 1863"] Follow the money. The upstart Republican Party had campaigned for several years on a platform of what we now call “tax-and-spend.” Prior to 1861, there was a certain amount of resistance to federal taxation and federal spending. But an entire political party based on a tax-and-spend philosophy coming to power was something new. For any other political party, it would not have mattered if the Southern States were part of the Union or independent. But, the new Republican Party favored taxing the South to spend in the North. Average Southerners were outraged. After all, how much more could the agricultural South be expected to pay to build up the industrialized North? The South paid far more that its far share of taxes before the war. Lincoln may have wanted to "save the Union," because he knew that the North could not progress without the South. In 1840 the South paid 84% of the tariffs, rising to 87% in 1860. Shortly before Lincoln had become President the highest tariffs in US history were imposed. Just four Southern States–Virginia,North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia–paid 75% of all federal taxes. Just think, three out of every four dollars sent to Washington, D.C. were from just four Southern States and all the other Southern States contributed as well. Washington could not afford to lose the tax revenue. I think Lincoln actually made some comments about this when secession began. [/QUOTE]
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