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Posted on 09/17/2003 10:29:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:57:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Students of history might recall that the American revolution against Great Britain was touched off, at least in part, by the British Parliament's habit of imposing heavy taxes on colonial subjects, who were politically powerless, in lieu of taking the heat for levying heavier taxes on Britons themselves.
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What IS the difference, and who benefits most?
To heck with the Recall and the goings on today.. That mess will straighten itself out soo enough.
It is the 2004 General election that will be the time to send these bums in the demRatically controlled legislature packing!
The taxation was supposed to be to pay for the war against the French and if the author thinks that those taxes were heavy I wonder what word he would choose to use for the everyday taxes we pay now? I could think of a few but I’ll not post them in a family forum.
"History is only a tiresome repetition of one story." -William Graham Sumner
Sumner was referring to the seemingly endless attempts to harness the power of the State to further one's own ends at the expense of other people. All human types?generals, millionaires, priests, scholars and so on?have made these attempts. The disease is not confined by race, color or creed, by age or occupation, by democracy or dictatorship. All of it makes little difference. The desire to live at the expense of other men is a constant theme that runs through all of human history.
SEE http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1306
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