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This is one of the most effective propaganda lines to keep idiots voting for less taxes for the rich and corporations.
You didn't stop paying taxes, you started getting services and representation in your legislature in exchange for paying taxes.
Ironically, you guys pay taxes to Israel in exchange for nothing now.
you guys pay taxes to Israel in exchange for nothing now.
Nonsense, we get free trips to the desert (god's idea of a chosen land) to go lick rocks!
Lemmy is starting to really tire me out with constant negativity. The niche comms I sub to are mostly quiet, and the big ones it seems like everyone is at each other's throats.
This was a joke, in shitposts. I thought it was worth a chuckle, but not really worth dissection and all the negative energy.
When we quit paying taxes... to England.
It's a half thought, but anything sounds deep to a giant idiot.
Are people under the impression that the US revolution and independence was specifically about not paying taxes? That's some libertarian shit right there.
It's the narrative pushed In alot of schools in the USA
I distinctly remember writing some report about taxation without representation, thinking it was some super important American principle. I was real confused when I learned about Puerto Rico
Ugh. How does MA have to keep reminding this part of history?
No taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. Having a voice was the important part. But asking people to parse a conditional is too much.
“If you breathe mercury, jump off a bridge.”
“You’re telling me to jump off a bridge!???”
We didn’t quit paying taxes. We just quit paying unfair taxes to the Crown.
A reminder that the taxes in question were levied to recoup the costs of French and Indian War, which the colonists started.
And, which was largely fought (and won) in a way that dramatically benefitted the colonists.
Ever wonder why there are so many places with French names just slightly inland from the original 13 US colonies have French names?
New France went from the Gulf of Mexico north, included all the Great Lakes, and kept going up to Hudson's Bay. American settlers couldn't go west without entering New France, so England fought a war to allow the expansion west. It won that war. The resulting treaty gave the British colonists in the Americas a huge amount of territory they could expand into, leaving only a small amount behind for France and its native allies.
The British colonists in the Americas were asked to help pay for the war that gave them that opportunity to expand west, and they rebelled. And then, after the rebellion, they decided they didn't need to abide by the terms of the British treaty with the French and took over most of the remaining land that France had been left after that war.
Quit paying ~~unfair~~ taxes to the crown
"No taxation without representation". If the colonies got representatives in Parliament, that flag would look mighty different.
Except that the British were offering that concession, and the negotiators for the colonists didn't want to take it because really the taxes and lack of representation were just an excuse.
Then don't get the fireworks? I'm a huge advocate to just ban the entire thing worldwide anyways. Let the cities organize big shows but no private sales, it's massively wasteful for both your pockets and the environment.
You know what's also not cool. Making using fireworks illegal because it might cause a fire but don't ban the selling of fireworks.
Fireworks enthusiasts should take their fireworks to a fireworks range when they want to use them and keep them locked in a fireworks case when not in use.
The U.S. literally started charging insane taxes right as the country began. They even teach Shays Rebellion in school.
The whole story only makes sense through the propaganda lens, brave freedom fighters against an oppressive government taxing them for no reason.
Then you read the actual context and it's a bunch of new aristocracy high on slave money mad that the empire refuses to let them expand past the boarders established in a war that benefited them and they are now having to pay taxes for.
Wait, what idiot thinks that the 4th of July is a celebration of not paying taxes?
Based and lib pilled
