I know our dad or grandad’s generations wouldn’t have put up with 10% of this sh*t! Are we a nation of pussies? Wasn’t the Revolutionary War over a one-percent tax?
No it was over a number of taxes, having to quarter troops in your house, King George not allowing the colonies to end slavery as long as they were part of the empire (which 6-7 did as soon as war started), having to import bibles from Britain, couldn’t print their own. And then having no representation as king’s governors could dissolve colonial governments as well as the king doing so.
The colonists objected on the grounds not that the taxes were high (they were low) but that they had no representation in the Parliament.
The British were trying to pay off their war debt(which was huge) by taxing the American colonies without their consent.
Molasses Act, Sugar Act, Currency Act, Quartering Acts, Stamp Act, etc...
Yes, yes we are a nation of pussies. It's sad, but true.
Why else can people who should have been busy lynching their Senators be complaining about a single Justice not knocking down the law those Senators passed? Everyone knows that if the Supremes had knocked down BarryCare King Barry would have done exactly what Jackson did and said, "they've ruled, now let them enforce it" not long before he went ahead and moved the Cherokee half way across the country.
My wife's family are all folks who descend from two couples who hid and changed their names right after they heard what Jackson said, and they're are all through Western NC and Northern GA, not Oklahoma. Do you think they believe that what the Supreme Court rules really makes any difference?
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