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To: tflabo

ObamaCare was the modern day Stamp Act, the last straw.

Who will be our Patrick Henry?


12 posted on 07/04/2012 12:43:14 PM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.

The actual cost of the Stamp Act was relatively small. What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set. In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures. If this new tax were allowed to pass without resistance, the colonists reasoned, the door would be open for far more troublesome taxation in the future....... excerpts from weblink

http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm


14 posted on 07/04/2012 12:47:42 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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