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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (34631)	6/21/2005 10:25:32 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

The effect of the duties imposed by England meant that even the poorest in America were contributing taxes to the English treasury. The English Treasury was in debt up to it's eyeballs, spending it on defending the colonies in the French and Indian War which was started by Virginia. Virginia seemed to think it was their "right" to take French and Indian territory. The Townsend duties of 1770 exacted an "onerous" tariff of a whopping £21,000 and was repealed [except for tea] in Mar 1770. When England eliminated the tariff on tea the colonists dumped the tea in the Boston Harbor in protest. [See the Boston Tea Party.]. The Stamp Act, as I mentioned previously, was targetted at the more wealthy in the Colonies, wasn't enforced and was repealed by England nearly ten years before the Revolutionary War. The traitors, sic Founding Fathers, couldn't even come up with a single "Act" related to taxes when they generated the list of Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts were: Quartering Act Quebec Act [my favorite] Massachusetts Government Act Administration of Justice Act Boston Port Act None of which had anything to do with onerous taxes or tariffs. jttmab