America was founded because some “philosopher” slaver farmers got pissy when the King refused to overrule the elected Parliament and allow them to genocide the natives for their land. This they called “tyranny”. They haven’t learned any better in the ensuing centuries.
i mean my area of study was elsewhere, but i focused the financial back and forth between the crown and the colonies back in college (so you know, undergrad level of understanding 20 years ago) and taxation seems to be more than just a slogan (“taxation without representation”). it was kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back where the locus of control of their supposedly democratic form of government was removed from them, and they were still expected to bear (what the colonies somewhat unreasonably, somewhat reasonably felt were) undue burdens necessary to maintain an (ceaselessly warring and expanding) empire.
The colonials paid 10% of the tax paid by those in England. Tax was massively overhyped by the rabble-rousers. When else in history has anyone protested against a 90% tax discount?
i’m too tired to remember what the actual tax rate paid by the colonists was, but take a minute to read the acts that were passed and see some of the shit that was passed along with the tax rates. there’s a constant erosion of rights over a decade. they just happened to coincide with the tax acts. specifically… i think it was the townshend acts?
America was founded because some “philosopher” slaver farmers got pissy when the King refused to overrule the elected Parliament and allow them to genocide the natives for their land. This they called “tyranny”. They haven’t learned any better in the ensuing centuries.
i mean my area of study was elsewhere, but i focused the financial back and forth between the crown and the colonies back in college (so you know, undergrad level of understanding 20 years ago) and taxation seems to be more than just a slogan (“taxation without representation”). it was kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back where the locus of control of their supposedly democratic form of government was removed from them, and they were still expected to bear (what the colonies somewhat unreasonably, somewhat reasonably felt were) undue burdens necessary to maintain an (ceaselessly warring and expanding) empire.
The colonials paid 10% of the tax paid by those in England. Tax was massively overhyped by the rabble-rousers. When else in history has anyone protested against a 90% tax discount?
i’m too tired to remember what the actual tax rate paid by the colonists was, but take a minute to read the acts that were passed and see some of the shit that was passed along with the tax rates. there’s a constant erosion of rights over a decade. they just happened to coincide with the tax acts. specifically… i think it was the townshend acts?