It is true that an income tax was levied to fund the Civil War but it was temporary and repealed. Of course it funded the Union. The south had its own method of funding its rebellion and refused to participate in the income tax. I believe they worked their slaves harder to sell more cotton to Europe.
The Confederacy made it through the war by playing with the money, relying heavily on scrip that caused runaway inflation. During the early part of the war they refused to import cotton to Europe, hoping to coerce England into intervening just to opening up the cotton trade its mills needed. The Union imposed a blockade around the south, and later controlled the Mississippi, so the CSA couldn’t have relied too much on cotton profits. Both sides relied on games with the money supply, setting a terrible precedent for future wars. That’s another thread, though!
Maybe the were so much for freedom they were pro-choice. You know, where personally they were against slavery but thought people had a right to choose how best to manage their own land.
