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Had the Brits not over-taxed those fellas, we most certainly never would have revolted. But, there was a French war to pay for. So, Britain got greedy.
I often think that if King George had allowed Hamilton et al to participate in the colonial government, we might never have had a revolution and would now be a larger country merged with Canada.
My money is still on following the money. It's always about the money.It was not even about "over-taxation" at all. The Colonists had no objections to paying taxes. The real issue was the resentment of the failure to recognize their Rights of Englishmen.
Only simpletons and those with only a Junior High level of history think it was about taxes themselves.
And that is what the war was really about. And it is obvious when the "1768 Petition, Memorial, and Remonstrance" is examined. It is sad that this earlier declaration has been almost completely ignored. In it, it restated that the Colonists were loyal to England and the Crown, and it was their duty to serve the King. However, as Englishmen they also had rights under the Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, and other legal documents to certain rights in exchange, including the Right to Petition, the Right of Representation, and the Right of Due Process.
It was only the ignoring of this Petition and later increasingly harsher measured (including the abolishment of all Colonial Councils) that pushed them into action. And ultimately turning the Second Continental Congress 8 years later from sending yet another Petition attempting to address the ignoring of these rights into an outright Declaration of Independence.
At least after the Colonies revolted Great Britain got wise and started to grant their colonies greater degrees of self-governance. If they had done that in 1768 or even 1775, the Colonies would likely still be part of the Commonwealth to this day.
My money is still on following the money. It's always about the money.
IMO, the people getting rich here probably could not care less about that. For them the issue was keeping their wealth and not having to fork it over to the British Trading monopolies like the Virginia Trading Company.
And this is why you keep failing.
We are trying to discuss history, not the Marxian Philosophy.
I always find it funny that the Leftists and Marxists seem to care about money over anything else. It is even more important to them than rights. Which is what the Revolution was ultimately all about.
Fact is that it was about the money. The first act of discord was a trade embargo imposed on the colonies by Britain, which banned the colonies from trading with other countries. This led to an uprising in the upper colonies in the late 1600's.
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