We also had a war to free the slaves and fought another war to fight *against* Nazis.
We’re too busy fighting a culture war to realize the real enemy is the oligarchs
The Boston Tea Party was not about the price of tea or a simple tariff. The Tea Act of 1773 did not raise the tea tax; a small tax on tea had already existed since the Townshend Acts of 1767. Instead, the Tea Act allowed the struggling British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies, bypassing colonial merchants. This made British tea cheaper than smuggled Dutch tea, even with the tax still in place. Colonists, however, saw this as a political trap. Purchasing the cheaper tea would have meant implicitly accepting Parliament’s right to tax them without representation. The destruction of 342 chests of tea in Boston Harbor was therefore a protest against Parliament’s authority, not simply an objection to a tariff. The tax itself was symbolic; the real conflict centered on the principle of self-governance and who had the legitimate right to impose taxes on the colonies.
Is this why Coca-Cola was invented?
I mean, it’s more nuanced than that. It was taxation without representation in parliament. But yes. And we are likey inching closer to another one.
We can just grow our own coffee in Iowa.
And we STILL hate tea!
Red coast , red hats ..all the same mission. To gain your submission to and old fat whiny narcissist with a ugly wig !
actually it was a lack of representation but same thing
Anybody falling for the strawman shit here will easily fall for the real thing. This is stupid
Well, yeah. They were still technically British at that point.
Fun fact, this protest was organized and led by Freemasons.
I think about this every time there is an open seat in Congress. People are still paying taxes without representation.
“No tax without representation” the tea tarrif was being paid directly to England, with no representatives for ourselves. Today we pay tarrifs to the US government, and have elected officials representing us. The argument does not fit
Men were a thousand times braver back then. Those men crossed the Atlantic in a wooden leaky boat using only the power of wind. Those men bravely walked across the continent fighting Indians and bears and wolves.
Our current generation is not known for their bravery but they got killer tick tock dance moves
why haven’t americans called for a general strike or a refusal to pay taxes? if congress and the executive branch are not responding to the people’s interests, why the hell should you pay taxes? why is everything so calm? I’m venezuelan and my country went through the same process of destruction of democratic institutions right after 2002 when the opposition tried to coup chavez with the help of the bush admin. Watching this from the outside has been like a deja vu. You have no much time left to recover what you lost. Next midterms will be your last chance.
Tea is so 18th century. Nowadays you throw bags of cocaine overboard to show your support for the Republic!
*sigh* no, we didn’t. That’s a myth. We fought a revolution because the colonists wanted to keep colonizing but the crown wanted to make peace with the tribes. It was all about wealthy landowners wanting more land. It was never about tyranny.
What most Americans don’t understand, or refuse to acknowledge, is that those quite reasonable tariffs were imposed by the British in order to defray their considerable expense for all the naval patrols that kept the Colonies safe from the marauding French, with whom Britain was at war.
*Today’s* tariffs, on the other hand, have been imposed only because, having rented the entire city of Venice for a month as his wedding venue, Jeff “Bottomless Hole” Bezos has now decided he likes it so much he wants to *buy* it.
Tell anyone in MAGA, and I’m sure they would respond “well I don’t drink tea. So I don’t see what this has to do with anything”
Sorry bro, hating authoritarians is woke now.
It was mostly about the lack of representation and a say in what taxes we would be paying.
Of course we have a huge problem with representation now where public opinion on an issue has no impact on what is passed.
It was more about taxation without representation but tea tariff works too I guess.
Taxation without representation.
The people spending your taxes do not care about you. Like a Federal Government making Laws against your way of life, while you are paying the Lion Share of all the taxes.
I know it’s a shit post, but it’s because they objected to the cutting of the tarrifs on tea allowing the EIC to dump stock from India, undercutting the local merchant and Dutch smugglers
Yes, but there was also the Boston Massacre. How were we supposed to remain docile after trigger-happy armed forces killed… five people.
>But we have representation now!
How represented are you really when your district looks like spaghetti
No taxation without representation.
It wasn’t about not paying taxes. It was about having a seat at the table.
Ya well half the country believes it’s not a tax. It’s hard to overcome that level of stupidity.
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Well, interests weren’t being represented really.
We also had a war to free the slaves and fought another war to fight *against* Nazis.
We’re too busy fighting a culture war to realize the real enemy is the oligarchs
The Boston Tea Party was not about the price of tea or a simple tariff. The Tea Act of 1773 did not raise the tea tax; a small tax on tea had already existed since the Townshend Acts of 1767. Instead, the Tea Act allowed the struggling British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonies, bypassing colonial merchants. This made British tea cheaper than smuggled Dutch tea, even with the tax still in place. Colonists, however, saw this as a political trap. Purchasing the cheaper tea would have meant implicitly accepting Parliament’s right to tax them without representation. The destruction of 342 chests of tea in Boston Harbor was therefore a protest against Parliament’s authority, not simply an objection to a tariff. The tax itself was symbolic; the real conflict centered on the principle of self-governance and who had the legitimate right to impose taxes on the colonies.
Is this why Coca-Cola was invented?
I mean, it’s more nuanced than that. It was taxation without representation in parliament. But yes. And we are likey inching closer to another one.
We can just grow our own coffee in Iowa.
And we STILL hate tea!
Red coast , red hats ..all the same mission. To gain your submission to and old fat whiny narcissist with a ugly wig !
actually it was a lack of representation but same thing
The time for a Boston Coffee Party is NOW
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Trumpflation
Anybody falling for the strawman shit here will easily fall for the real thing. This is stupid
Well, yeah. They were still technically British at that point.
Fun fact, this protest was organized and led by Freemasons.
I think about this every time there is an open seat in Congress. People are still paying taxes without representation.
“No tax without representation” the tea tarrif was being paid directly to England, with no representatives for ourselves. Today we pay tarrifs to the US government, and have elected officials representing us. The argument does not fit
Men were a thousand times braver back then. Those men crossed the Atlantic in a wooden leaky boat using only the power of wind. Those men bravely walked across the continent fighting Indians and bears and wolves.
Our current generation is not known for their bravery but they got killer tick tock dance moves
why haven’t americans called for a general strike or a refusal to pay taxes? if congress and the executive branch are not responding to the people’s interests, why the hell should you pay taxes? why is everything so calm? I’m venezuelan and my country went through the same process of destruction of democratic institutions right after 2002 when the opposition tried to coup chavez with the help of the bush admin. Watching this from the outside has been like a deja vu. You have no much time left to recover what you lost. Next midterms will be your last chance.
Tea is so 18th century. Nowadays you throw bags of cocaine overboard to show your support for the Republic!
*sigh* no, we didn’t. That’s a myth. We fought a revolution because the colonists wanted to keep colonizing but the crown wanted to make peace with the tribes. It was all about wealthy landowners wanting more land. It was never about tyranny.
What most Americans don’t understand, or refuse to acknowledge, is that those quite reasonable tariffs were imposed by the British in order to defray their considerable expense for all the naval patrols that kept the Colonies safe from the marauding French, with whom Britain was at war.
*Today’s* tariffs, on the other hand, have been imposed only because, having rented the entire city of Venice for a month as his wedding venue, Jeff “Bottomless Hole” Bezos has now decided he likes it so much he wants to *buy* it.
Tell anyone in MAGA, and I’m sure they would respond “well I don’t drink tea. So I don’t see what this has to do with anything”
Sorry bro, hating authoritarians is woke now.
It was mostly about the lack of representation and a say in what taxes we would be paying.
Of course we have a huge problem with representation now where public opinion on an issue has no impact on what is passed.
It was more about taxation without representation but tea tariff works too I guess.
Taxation without representation.
The people spending your taxes do not care about you. Like a Federal Government making Laws against your way of life, while you are paying the Lion Share of all the taxes.
I know it’s a shit post, but it’s because they objected to the cutting of the tarrifs on tea allowing the EIC to dump stock from India, undercutting the local merchant and Dutch smugglers
Yes, but there was also the Boston Massacre. How were we supposed to remain docile after trigger-happy armed forces killed… five people.
>But we have representation now!
How represented are you really when your district looks like spaghetti
No taxation without representation.
It wasn’t about not paying taxes. It was about having a seat at the table.
Ya well half the country believes it’s not a tax. It’s hard to overcome that level of stupidity.
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