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Property tax, sales tax, tariffs, ...
by kccoder 11mo ago
Property tax, sales tax, tariffs, ...
- fakedang 11mo agoFunny how you all rebelled in the good old days over a tax of 3 pence per pound of tea.
- wqaatwt 11mo agoIIRC it was mainly about the government giving the East India Company a monopoly on all tea imports sidelining local merchants in Boston. The tax was used to rile up the mobs by merchants/smugglers, because the monopoly tea was actually cheaper than what they could ship from Holland.