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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: jttmab who wrote (34492)6/21/2005 10:01:43 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 93284
 
"They (Founding Fathers) were men of action who became frustrated with the unfair tax regime imposed by a remote and non-responsive government."

Really unfair. There was no income tax, the Stamp Act had been repealed...even postage was voluntary. The colonies weren't willing to pay even a small fraction of what England was spending on defending them. Instead, they thought the English should foot the entire bill. And then there was the intolerable Quebec Act. That's where England allowed Catholics to practice Catholicism. Horrors! What's going to happen if they allowed Catholics to practice their religion in the rest of the colonies?

No direct imports or exports were allowed all trade had to be taxed twice by Britain. (Is that what they mean by double duty?) Even trade with the Canary Islands which was about as close to the Americas as to England had to be conducted through England. The duties imposed by London were onerous.

If memory serves me, even England did not have Income Tax at the time. I am not sure which of the many iterations of tax regime the Chancellor of the Exchequer was enforcing at the time. Mostly in that era duties and different forms of property taxes funded the treasury. Peasants did not pay taxes even then.

The effect of the duties imposed by England meant that even the poorest in America were contributing taxes to the English treasury.
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