Oh, but Wait! They wouldn't have gotten a deal otherwise, so apparently whatever benefit they received was a consequence of the Deal they made! (It was continuing independence from England. That was their benefit. )
Which is sort of like saying that the benefit an extortion victim receives is that he gets to continue living.
148 posted on 07/07/2015 10:03:24 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)