Subject: Re: [baidarka] Maine kayak licencing fee.
From: cholst@bitstream.net
Date: Wed Mar 23 2005 - 13:16:06 EST
> Isnt the whole tax thing the reason why we left the monarchy and rule of
> England in the first place? Boston tea party? Remember that?
Not exactly. It was taxation without representation that was the rallying
cry. Parliament imposed taxes on the colonies, among other reasons, to
help pay for defending the American colonies against the French and
Indians in a war that started on our side of the Atlantic. But because the
colonies had no representation in Parliament, the colonists regarded the
taxes as an imposition by an alien power as opposed to a just tax by their
representatives.
Now we have taxation with representation, which I am sure you will agree
is much better. ;-)
Chuck Holst
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