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SPECIAL: Roger Lowenstein on Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

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The Confederacy and the Taxes

The south had wealth, but the lion share of its wealth was in land and slaves. They baseley, were unwillingt pay any sort of tax. If they were going to tax, it was going to be the planters. And a, they could have sold off their slaveshy sold off land. It would have been hard the market for slaves, but wasn't very good once the war started. So it was partly structural, but it was partly just aan ideological aversion to taxes, and particularly to federal taxes, and an unwillingness of to pay up.

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