Make America Great Again
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14% in taxes? If you add up all the taxes we pay, it is probably close to, if not over 50%. Fed income, state income, sales, gas, real estate, personal property and I'm sure there are a bunch others.
The quiet cost of pointless regulations comes to mind.
And it all goes to further enslave us! Isn't that great!
to clarify: the colonists didn't revolt over the amount of the tax, they revolted over the fact they had no say in implementing the tax. it was a seen just one more violation of their rights as british citizens to representation in governance in a long list of them that finally broke the camel's back.
I always thought it odd that this was on DC license plates when that’s exactly opposite of what they do.
precisely = )
That's assuming any of them actually pick up a history book once in a while and actually do some research, lol.
I really liked Sleepy Hollow when It came out (though for some reason I never manage to finish it), but it drove me crazy when Ichabod said the whole revolution started over a three percent tax. Every time I hear that, I wanna rip my hair out.
but hollywood gonna hollywood.
I think i only remember it because it bugged me so much...
mhm, it had been an ongoing issue.
People wondering why americans arent revolting should remember that
I'm not saying it'll take ten years, I'm saying Americans are long suffering. It takes a lot to push us to a 1776 moment, but heaven help anyone who does...
LOL 14 percent
Lots of built in taxes and fees we never see in all of our regulated products.
Sales tax, licensing fees, property tax, real estate tax on death, inheritance tax, state tax, taxes built into gasoline prices, the list goes on.
So nothing has changed
And a FAR regression. Our country is so far gone it's unbelievable. Everything has been infiltrated and subverted. Sad part is, it all occurred (was put into place) long before I was ever even alive. It's now just all coming to fruition as apart of their end-game/agenda.
It was also about the British dumping cheaper products onto the market. Most colonists were happy paying extra for really good Dutch tea, but the British made a monopoly where one shouldn't have existed. It was never about the 3% tax, but the overreach of government and corporations in general.
what was the year America really ended? Wasn't it shortly after the Civil War when we were so in debt and Grant had to take loans from the banks? I remember everyone talking about that on here not long ago and it was an interesting rabbit hole
THIS. Why is Andrew Jackson so important to Trump?
Still praying more and more folks continue to wake up from deep foggy slumber and see clearly.
Well, I’m still watching it happen before my eyes, so…….
"America had been founded by rebels, mostly tax rebels, in 1776. The American Revolution can essentially be summed up as a trade war with Britain. The famous ‘Boston Tea Party’ we all learned about was a protest over taxation regarding British tea. Somehow, a mere three percent tax on British tea was enough to start a revolution. As with many lessons from history, important context is usually forgotten, even omitted altogether, that would help explain confusing details like this. “The merchants were not protesting against the three pennies for a pound of tea; what they were protesting is what today we call ‘dumping.’ It is considered an unfair trading practice for the companies of one country to dump goods on the markets of another country to harm local businesses.” The British were trying to undercut the smuggled Dutch tea that was more expensive and had been preferred in America for many years.
However, the colonists understood the long-term consequences that would arise if the British were allowed to continue. “In defense of Boston merchants, the implications of the underpriced tea were disturbing. If a monopoly could be granted for tea, it could also be granted for other products, and become a device to punish anti-British merchants and reward Loyalists.” Indeed, unfair taxation to the point of becoming burdensome was just a likely possibility; but it was enough to motivate the birth of another great republic."
-from a paper I wrote in college.
I got an A thankfully! I didn't cover naval impressment though, as my paper was focused on the implications of taxation regarding secession and the Civil War. The closest thing to naval impressment that I covered was the Fort Sumter attack and how the media covered it. But again, my focus was strictly on taxes, interest, tax law, tax history, and how I believe it was the biggest factor in causing the Civil War.
I turned it in around May 2020. No, slavery certainly was a factor. I'd say it ranked anywhere from 2nd to 5th or 6th, depending on the state. The issues were different for everyone. Here's how I summed it up:
"The issues of slavery, westward expansion, internal improvements, and others were paramount to different interests in different states, and at different times. The shifting interests of each state defined what each political party platformed on, and this is one reason why the tariff and revenue issues do not normally pop up during a traditional study of the Civil War."
Also,
"...for the sake of focus and clarity on the subject, we must first put aside all moral reservations and then concede the fact that slavery was a major issue that led to secession and the ‘War of the Rebellion,’ or Civil War; just as westward expansion, internal improvements, and states’ rights were. Preceding all of these issues, though, were the disagreements over tariff and revenue legislation. Indeed, “freedom from oppressive taxation had caused the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and throughout history revolts and rebellions too numerous to mention. The War of the Rebellion, as it was officially called, had at its core what has been at the core of most rebellions from our earliest historical records.” Revolutionary wars; civil wars; world wars; even the most popular fictional wars, more often than not, reveal the initial motivation for war in the ‘opening credits.’ A long time ago in a colony far, far away…"
It's an interesting topic to say the least.
They revolted for much more than 3% taxes, have you ever read the declaration of independence?
Also:
Used Gold and Silver as money
vs.
Prints money out of thin air
What happened to us.
13-Star Chad vs. 50 First date.
Ha ha no. Not without sauce, they didn't.
There's a lot of perspectives out there on this issue.
"Marijuana cultivation began in the United States around 1600 with the Jamestown settlers, who began growing the cannabis sativa or hemp plant for its unusually strong fiber that was used to make rope, sails, and clothing. Until after the Civil War, marijuana was a source of major revenue for the United States. During the 19th century marijuana plantations flourished in Mississippi, Georgia, California, South Carolina, Nebraska, New York, and Kentucky. Also during this period, smoking hashish, a stronger preparation of marijuana derived from the dried resin of the plant, was popular throughout France and to a lesser degree in the US."
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/buyers/socialhistory.html
Either way, we know they at least grew tobacco.
They grew hemp, which this quote erroneously identifies as "marijuana". The two are both Cannabis sativa sativa, like Dachshunds and Greyhounds are both Canis lupus familiaris. But (again like the dogs) the plants are bred in vastly different ways, to create strikingly different physical configurations, and for completely different purposes.
Hemp is the best natural fiber known, and a number of the Founding Fathers grew it for that reason. But there is no point smoking it unless one wants the granddaddy of all headaches and no buzz.
Modern smokeable "hemp" is actually cannabis grown as "marijuana" (shorter plants with abundant smokeable flowers) but with a higher than usual CBDa content and very low THCa content of under 0.3%.
There's no reliable evidence that the Founders sexed the plants (to increase cannabinoid-containing resin, discarding males prevents pollination and causes females to overproduce resin), grew them for anything other than fiber, or smoked them.
Want freedom over security --- Want security over freedom.
Felt like that last line would be better like that.
Time for a revolt
"No taxation without representation" needs to be updated to "No taxation/incarceration as retribution"
All the taxes and unjust laws we see today are forms of retribution.