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The way I remember it, the founding fathers weren't protesting the taxes, so much as the lack of representation. Ben Franklin famously wrote that "In this world
by leviathant 15y ago
The way I remember it, the founding fathers weren't protesting the taxes, so much as the lack of representation. Ben Franklin famously wrote that "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." This country wasn't founded on the notion that we should be tax free. The Boston Tea Party basically came about because The East India Tea company made bad business decisions, and wanted a tax break in England to alleviate warehousing issues.
Actually, it's all quite complicated, but to say that this was a country founded by patriots protesting taxes and then to complain of tiresome rhetoric is to illustrate how little you understand both American history and rhetoric.
- astine 15y agoThe way I remember it, the founding fathers weren't protesting the taxes, so much as the lack of representation. That's arguably wrong as well. A large number of American colonists (particularly in Boston; esp John Hancock) made a living as smugglers bypassing English tax laws and circumventing the EITC's trade monopoly on tea. The administrative changes that parliament made in that time included not only new taxes but better enforcement of laws which were already on the books and this nearly drove many prominent Americans out of business.