phreakwars
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Victory in the French and Indian War was costly for the British. At the war's conclusion in 1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of recouping their war costs. They were also looking for ways to reestablish control over the colonial governments that had become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war. Royal ineptitude compounded the problem. A series of actions including the Stamp Act (1765), the Townsend Acts (1767) and the Boston Massacre (1770) agitated the colonists, straining relations with the mother country. But it was the Crown's attempt to tax tea that spurred the colonists to action and laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.
The colonies refused to pay the levies required by the Townsend Acts claiming they had no obligation to pay taxes imposed by a Parliament in which they had no representation. In response, Parliament retracted the taxes with the exception of a duty on tea - a demonstration of Parliament's ability and right to tax the colonies.
In May of 1773 the British Parliament gave the struggling East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea to America. Additionally, Parliament reduced the duty the colonies would have to pay for the imported tea. The Americans would now get their tea at a cheaper price than ever before. However, if the colonies paid the duty tax on the imported tea they would be acknowledging Parliament's right to tax them. Tea was a staple of colonial life - it was assumed that the colonists would rather pay the tax than deny themselves the pleasure of a cup of tea.
The colonists were not fooled by Parliament's ploy. When the East India Company sent shipments of tea to Philadelphia and New York the ships were not allowed to land. In Charleston the tea-laden ships were permitted to dock but their cargo was consigned to a warehouse where it remained for three years until it was sold by patriots in order to help finance the revolution.
In Boston, the arrival of three tea ships ignited a furious reaction. The crisis came to a head on December 16, 1773 when as many as 7,000 agitated locals milled about the wharf where the ships were docked. A mass meeting at the Old South Meeting House that morning resolved that the tea ships should leave the harbor without payment of any duty. A committee was selected to take this message to the Customs House to force release of the ships out of the harbor. The Collector of Customs refused to allow the ships to leave without payment of the duty. Stalemate. The committee reported back to the mass meeting and a howl erupted from the meeting hall. It was now early evening and a group of about 200 men, some disguised as Indians, assembled on a near-by hill. Whopping war chants, the crowd marched two-by-two to the wharf, descended upon the three ships and dumped their offending cargos of tea into the harbor waters.
Most colonists applauded the action while the reaction in London was swift and vehement. In March 1774 Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts which among other measures closed the Port of Boston. The fuse that led directly to the explosion of American independence was lit.
No, it was about a corporation (east indie trade) getting a government tax break while the small business didn't.
In todays times, the East Indies company would be the equivalent of ****ing Wal-Mart.
Didn't help that the king was invested in the company either.
The east indie company's tax break allowed them to corner the market, so to speak, on the tea which put regular merchants out of business.
The weren't protesting the tax that THEY were paying on tea, they were protesting the tax break the government was giving big companies.
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wrong..they will get a tax break, but only if they make acceptable changes to their business
wrong..they will get a tax break, but only if they make acceptable changes to their business
If you think your right, tell me what CHANGES did the king request from the small merchants?
None. East Indie got the "TAX BREAK"
I know you'd like to disagree with me here, but sorry, this is documented history, not boogeyman future scenarios.
It was a TAX CUT, not a break.
The tea party rebellion was about big business not paying their fair share.
It's too bad even ancient history that's been taught in many schools even down to the elementary level for all these years, gets distorted for political reasons.
Sorry, you can try and come up with a new version of history, but you can't rewrite what is already there in those books.
This is elementary level learning, and yet right wingers can't get even THAT right because of their strong desire to remain in denial.
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What CHANGES did the king request from the small merchants?
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.It's much more like the Obama administration telling the small businesses that they will get a tax break, but only if they make acceptable changes to their business the government wants or buy items the government says they should buy, instead of what the business owner deems to be what is best for his business to grow.
See, ya can't answer it, because your simply WRONG.
Again I ask: What CHANGES did the king request from the small merchants?
YOU said it.
.It's much more like the Obama administration telling the small businesses that they will get a tax break, but only if they make acceptable changes to their business the government wants or buy items the government says they should buy, instead of what the business owner deems to be what is best for his business to grow.
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Link?I see you won't address the real story. The death threats from the left.
Just isolated incidents, right?Still not seeing all that right wing violence you kept saying was going to happen.
Their public information voter registration proves that, no need to make anything up.You and the left were wrong about the tax guy, the guy in Texas who flew the plane into the federal building, the guy who shot up the Holocaust museum, but quick to try to label them as right wing.
Link?But we have now had many on the left plotting violence, but it doesn't seem to make the news or get blogged by you.
So what is it I want the government to run in my life?
I think people are too stupid to do things themselves?
You mean like health care for someone who is disabled and can't afford it?
Is THAT what you mean by the government taking over?
So where is that government takeover?
Hell what HAVE they taken over?
NOTHING.
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Public Schools: Make Them PrivateWhat are these school vouchers you guys keep talking about?