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Why did it have a national property tax rate then?
If the Confederacy was all about states rights..
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Hypocrite industrialized northeast states converted whaling ships into slave ships and factories became wealthy from importing and processing cotton from southern plantations. The Confederacy could never compete with the industrial might of the North. The "draft riots" in New York City proved how racist the North was when blacks were rounded up and hanged from light poles.
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The United States has had a national property tax decades before the civil war though.
The Feudal Origins of America’s Most-Hated Tax
Property tax—one of the most criticized taxes on U.S. residents—stems from a system put in place by William the Conqueror.
www.theatlantic.com
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But the rationale is very simple: They needed the money. In fact, the federal government levied a national property tax in 1798, 1814, 1815, 1816, and 1861.
(I guess they came up with one in 1861, like you said..)
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But the Union wasn't supposedly all about States having all the power.
The economic basis of the entire USA was unpaid labour. The South was determined to keep and expand that regime. After all, the cornerstone of the Confederate government was the inferiority of the Black man.
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Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. [Applause.]
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The Constitution was a money raising exercise as the prior Articles did not result in the collection of sufficient money to pay national debt.
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Veiled way to say one hasn't read the US Constitution a few times without saying one hasn't read the US Constitution a few times.
I suppose you don't know the 'bill of rights' was an addendum...
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When did the Union start a national property tax?The United States has had a national property tax decades before the civil war though.
The Feudal Origins of America’s Most-Hated Tax
Property tax—one of the most criticized taxes on U.S. residents—stems from a system put in place by William the Conqueror.
The Union, referring to the United States, first implemented a national property tax during the Civil War. The Revenue Act of 1861 introduced the first federal income tax to help fund the war effort, and it also included provisions for a property tax. This tax was levied on real estate and personal property, and it was one of the earliest instances of the federal government directly taxing individuals' property. The property tax was short-lived, as it was repealed in 1866 after the war ended.
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The north assembled the first standing industrial army that Jefferson warned of.
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Yes, but the South shot itself in the foot when it used all of its capital investment to chase cotton profits and slaves and didn't spend anything on developing industries like steel and shipbuilding. A case of the 'free market' fantasy killing itself via 'capital chasing the highest returns' as 'efficiency'. It's called 'mindless greed', and it is just as deadly as any atomic bomb.
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There was no way the South could have expanded slavery on the eve of the industrial revolution. Lincoln should have done everything he could to preserve the Union before the Civil War. Instead he relied on bad advice and possibly some mental breakdown that told him the Civil War would barely last a couple of months. New Jersey was the last state to outlaw slavery scarcely a decade before the Civil War so it seems that slavery existed in the North before and after the Civil War. The victors write the history books and a hundred and fifty years of Lincoln propaganda taught kids that Lincoln "preserved" the Union while the Union fell apart under his watch. Historically the victors preferred not to dwell on northern slavery or violent racism while northern industrial complex became rich on the backs of slaves. .The economic basis of the entire USA was unpaid labour. The South was determined to keep and expand that regime. After all, the cornerstone of the Confederate government was the inferiority of the Black man.
The "Cornerstone" Speech Full Text - Text of Stephens's Speech - Owl Eyes
Read Full Text and Annotations on The "Cornerstone" Speech Text of Stephens's Speech at Owl EyesOur new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. [Applause.]
The slave patrols and militia just weren't cutting it.
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Except at least into the new territories, as they wished to have the right. Too, there was no constitutional provision of which I'm aware that constrained the South to not expand the use of unpaid labour in the South.
Pity the South attempted to steal Union property.
Except to supply those industries based on raw material produced by unpaid labour.
An early landmark moment in the Industrial Revolutioncame near the end of the eighteenth century,when Samuel Slater brought new manufacturingtechnologies from Britain to the United Statesand founded the first U.S. cotton mill in Beverly,Massachusetts. Slater’s Mill in Pawtucket, RhodeIsland, like many of the mills and factories thatsprang up in the next few decades, was poweredby water, which confined industrial development tothe northeast at first. The concentration of industryin the Northeast also facilitated the development oftransportation systems such as railroads and canals,which encouraged commerce and trade.
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