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I feel sorry that you needed to include an insult in your comment. You could have just contributed your historical understanding. The Stamp Act and Tea Act wer
by madgar 10y ago
I feel sorry that you needed to include an insult in your comment. You could have just contributed your historical understanding.
The Stamp Act and Tea Act were opposed as taxation without representation in Parliament. They were not opposed because Americans didn't believe in taxes on principle. The spread of that belief is very new delusion.
In 1776, the freedom to use slaves to run your business was absolutely an expression of economic liberty for half of America. Thomas Jefferson and Democratic Republicans opposed the growth of the budding federal government because of the fear that a federal government could curtail local business practices, namely slavery.
- mattmcknight 10y agoYou made the false claim "economic liberty meant slavery". Freedom to enslave people is not an increase in economic liberty, it contracts the economic liberty of the enslaved persons. It was the pursuit of the economic liberty to democratically determine the disposition of one's taxes upon which the country was founded. The country was not founded to preserve slavery. It is a pitiful and offensive rhetorical trick to suggest otherwise. Where did my comment suggest that there was a disbelief in taxes on principle? That is your delusion, not mine.