You're missing the point. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you can make stuff up. Should I be able to say Bush and Obama BBQ'd children on the Whitehouse lawn just because they did a lot of other bad stuff?
Let's look at Obamacare. Would it make sense for states to secede over Obamacare
if it didn't pass? That would just be
stupid. Why guarantee the passage of something you don't like when you can just vote it down? The Morril Tariff
would NOT have based if it were NOT for secession.
Furthermore if you read the link I posted you will see the Dilorenzo purposefully left out the fact that the tariff had not passed in doing his analysis. That's just dishonest...
period.
No. What's naive is pulling your senators out
when they could have stopped the legislation! Further if you go back and read the southern declarations of secession
some of them don't even mention the tariff! Ask yourself this. How many southern states were willing to stand with South Carolina against a worse tariff during the nullification crisis?* Answer?
ZERO! It's naive to think that all of these states suddenly cared about a tariff that couldn't pass when they weren't willing to stand up with South Carolina against a tariff that DID pass.
Please watch this.
* Note. The tariff behind the nullification crisis was a 35% ad valorem tax and on some things it was as high as 50%. The Morill tariff was a 26% ad valorem tax with a 36% tax on certain items.
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