Wow: “Turns out, the Colonists were not the only ones to chafe at taxes on tea. In England, the tea tariff had been 119 percent [...]” Wow, one wonders if such

Wow: “Turns out, the Colonists were not the only ones to chafe at taxes on tea. In England, the tea tariff had been 119 percent [...]” Wow, one wonders if such rates were just imposed to deliberately bankrupt the companiss importing the stuff. Also, weren’t many of the “liberal” ideas about state and taxation borne from that same time? Perhaps we should contextualize their contempt for state and taxes not to a general principle but to 119% levels...