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Imagine your life without the I.R.S.!
by Richard
Friday, November 21, 2008 11:30 a.m.
On December 16, 1773, a smuggler by the name of John Hancock and a community organizer by the name of Samuel Adams met at the Old South Meeting House in Boston about a situation that had been fostering growing anger and frustration among the colonists over many years.
You see England had been taxing tea in the colonies. In protest, smugglers like Hancock organized a boycott and English companies found they couldn't sell their tea in the colonies. Their lobbyists convinced Parliament to undercut the smugglers by eliminating the tea tax. With the tax code thus manipulated to the benefit of the tea companies, the colonial rabble rousers started preventing the tea from being landed. In Massachusetts, while the companies finally agreed to ship the tea back to England, the governor would have none of that and prevented the ships from leaving.
It all came to a head on that cold December night, when John the Smuggler and Sam the Community Organizer decided that enough was enough and they dumped the tea from the three tea ships into the harbor.
Among their many other indictments, Hancock and Adams were charged with treason.
But we all know how that turned out.
On Tuesday, December 16th, you can celebrate the 225th anniversary of the colonial response to the manipulation of the tea tax, or you can do nothing.
The colonial fight against taxation by a government far removed from the taxpaying citizens characterizes, in much the same way, today's American people's fight against their own Federal government.
So, how big a protest do you want to have?
You won't even need to put on your winter clothes. You can join in from the comforting warm glow of your computer screen.
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