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H.D.Rider

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Re: Confederate Flag Controversy

from H.D.Rider on 07/19/2015 12:27 AM

The Morrill Tariff, which more than doubled the average tariff rate (from 15% to 32.6% initially), was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives during the 1859–60 session of Congress, and was the cornerstone of the Republican Party's economic policy. It then passed the U.S. Senate, and was signed into law by President James Buchanan on March 2, 1861, two days before Lincoln's inauguration, where he threatened war on any state that failed to collect the new tax. At the time, the tariff accounted for at least 90 percent of all federal tax revenues. The Morrill Tariff therefore represented a more than doubling of the rate of federal taxation! Jefferson Davis proclaimed that the economy of the Confederacy would be based on free trade. The South controled most of the shipping ports.

I assume you don't live in the South or for that matter know anything about the South and the War of Northern Aggression. What if the South had control of Congress and decided all States taxes not Southern would double. That wouldn't piss you off?

We Sons of Confederate Veterans pledge ourselves to perpetuate the memory of our Confederate Ancestors, who by their sacrifices established the Confederate states of America and fought to preserve their declared independence.

Reply Edited on 07/19/2015 12:30 AM.

H.D.Rider

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Re: Confederate Flag Controversy

from H.D.Rider on 07/19/2015 12:11 AM

"To have a flag that symbolizes oppression flying by any state in an official capacity is a disgrace to our country." If that statement were true, I'd agree with you. But it's not !