I told my son some time ago: in many ways, King George didn't treat us this badly! Good grief! The Boston Tea Party was over a 1% tax! Who wouldn't cheer a 1% tax today!!!
King George didn’t treat us as badly as we treated ourselves almost immediately after, maybe firing, the revolution. As you know, the tyranny has grown more onerous by a factor of, I can only imagine, a billion or so since.
The tea party was not about taxes. It was more like industrial sabotage. A crown chartered company “dumped” a surplus of tea on our market, thereby driving down the domestic price and hurting the bottom line of smugglers like Hancock.