British empire: ok the colonies are built, time to stop using slave labour.
Colonies: ITS ABOUT TAXES.
History never changes.
All those “don’t tread on me” flags are licking the boot clean
But but it wasn’t a tariff! It was a TAX! It’s no taxation without representation, nothing about tariffs in there.
/s
And it wasn’t *The King*. Since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Monarch is, for all practical purposes related to laws, a figurehead. All of these ‘grievances’ were results of Acts of Parliament, *elected*, for the House of Commons, officials.
The history of the present [ruler] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
– He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. […]
– He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. […]
– For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
– For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
– For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury
– For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
I’d say we should dump Teslas in the Boston Harbour, but they got some nasty metals in them
We don’t want to pay tariffs now either.
The vast majority of people, once they know what a tariff is, don’t want them. The only people that are in support of them are people that are so far up Trumps ass that they have to to say everything Trump does or says is the best thing ever. It’s a real ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ situation.
That’s not at all what the Boston Tea Party was about.
Tariffs are charged to the exporting country in order for their goods to be received at the docks of an importing company. This forces the exporting company to either take reduced profit or increase their prices. Raising their prices weakens their competitiveness with domestic production.
The Townshend Duties were TAXES (not tariffs). The tea would come from East India, but the colonies were taxed, with the taxes being paid to Britain.
The difference was that the money paid to import was being sent to Britain, a third party, while Britain did not recognize the colonies with a voice in parliament.
This is why we have “no taxation without representation” in our Bill of Rights.
Tariffs are imposed on other nations to protect your own nation’s industries. This was a Tea TAX meant to extort wealth from the colonists (English citizens) to finance the bloated, debt-ridden Empire’s war machine. There was no discussion, debate or representation; the Crown simply rammed it down the colonists throat.
Half of us love tariffs and think they should be even higher…
Again, history and reading are not strong for Mag-ats and their orange jesus.
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“History? What’s that?” – most Americans
British empire: ok the colonies are built, time to stop using slave labour.
Colonies: ITS ABOUT TAXES.
History never changes.
All those “don’t tread on me” flags are licking the boot clean
But but it wasn’t a tariff! It was a TAX! It’s no taxation without representation, nothing about tariffs in there.
/s
And it wasn’t *The King*. Since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Monarch is, for all practical purposes related to laws, a figurehead. All of these ‘grievances’ were results of Acts of Parliament, *elected*, for the House of Commons, officials.
The history of the present [ruler] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
– He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. […]
– He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. […]
– For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
– For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
– For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury
– For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
— In Congress, July 4, 1776
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Nah bro that was upsetting this is ignorable.
I’d say we should dump Teslas in the Boston Harbour, but they got some nasty metals in them
We don’t want to pay tariffs now either.
The vast majority of people, once they know what a tariff is, don’t want them. The only people that are in support of them are people that are so far up Trumps ass that they have to to say everything Trump does or says is the best thing ever. It’s a real ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ situation.
That’s not at all what the Boston Tea Party was about.
Tariffs are charged to the exporting country in order for their goods to be received at the docks of an importing company. This forces the exporting company to either take reduced profit or increase their prices. Raising their prices weakens their competitiveness with domestic production.
The Townshend Duties were TAXES (not tariffs). The tea would come from East India, but the colonies were taxed, with the taxes being paid to Britain.
The difference was that the money paid to import was being sent to Britain, a third party, while Britain did not recognize the colonies with a voice in parliament.
This is why we have “no taxation without representation” in our Bill of Rights.
Tariffs are imposed on other nations to protect your own nation’s industries. This was a Tea TAX meant to extort wealth from the colonists (English citizens) to finance the bloated, debt-ridden Empire’s war machine. There was no discussion, debate or representation; the Crown simply rammed it down the colonists throat.
Half of us love tariffs and think they should be even higher…
Again, history and reading are not strong for Mag-ats and their orange jesus.
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