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I agree with you but I would like to point out that the US was basically founded on the idea of getting out of a bad contract instead of paying the money we owe
by pfisch 12y ago
I agree with you but I would like to point out that the US was basically founded on the idea of getting out of a bad contract instead of paying the money we owed. It has been spun in a lot of other ways because yay america, but really we didn't want to pay England back for financing the French and Indian War and for ongoing stationing of troops because of that conflict. So we didn't and that was that.
- fidotron 12y agoNot really. Had the colonists had better representation in parliament then the case for separation would have been non-existent, but as it stood even Burke, who famously opposed the French Revolution, thought they had a point.
- pfisch 12y agoMost of the English population didn't even have representation in parliament. Its very convenient how this wasn't an issue until America owed England a huge amount of money. What about all previous import/export taxes up until the revolution?
- tedunangst 12y agoI think the U.S. was also founded on the idea that revolutions are exceptional events.