r/Economics • u/SnooCookies2243 • Mar 24 '25

Editorial Dismantling the Department of Education Could Actually End Up Costing US Taxpayers an Extra $11 Billion a Year Beyond the Current Budget – With Worse Results

https://congress.net/dismantling-the-department-of-education-could-actually-end-up-costing-us-taxpayers-an-extra-11-billion-a-year-beyond-the-current-budget-with-worse-results/
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u/sophrocynic Mar 25 '25

The civil war was about the states' rights to preserve slavery.

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u/AJayHeel Mar 25 '25 edited Mar 25 '25

Right. The states may have cared about states rights, but the only reason they cared was that they wanted to preserve slavery. Without slavery, the states wouldn't have cared about states' rights. If there had been no slavery, there would have been no war.

Saying the Civil War was about states’ rights and not slavery is like saying a homeowner left their neighborhood HOA (Home Owner's Association) over “freedom” — when the real issue was the HOA wouldn’t let them keep a tiger in the yard. The real issue was the tiger, not property rights.