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This seems like a pretty irrelevant derail of the GPs point, no? Regardless the revolution was about their rights as Englishmen being infringed upon, not the a
by edgyquant 4y ago
This seems like a pretty irrelevant derail of the GPs point, no? Regardless the revolution was about their rights as Englishmen being infringed upon, not the amount of taxes paid.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoSpending the 1770s paying doing business as usual and paying taxes would have made all the big personalities much wealthier than dragging armies across their place of business and having a country to show for it wound up making them.
- eru 4y agoOstensibly the criminal revolt against the rightful authority of the crown was about rights and stuff. I don't think we should necessarily take traitors at their word. (Especially when they talk a big talk about freedom and mankind, but keep slaves.)