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Oh get over yourself. Most of us who did 6-7th grade history understand that the “no taxes” period of the Rev War was about everyone understanding if they cut off england they could take this massive new country for themselves. It wasn’t but a few years before Hamilton and the rest had do the treasury and more.

It isn’t that it is “deep”, it is that is a silly little jab at history.

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chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Taxes pay for community benefits and projects like roads and police and fire services and public education and (ideally) healthcare. Those paying taxes should have representatives to help ensure their constituents are benefiting from the taxes they’re providing.

The American colonies were being taxed without representation and therefore meaningful benefits from the taxes they were paying. The British government was present in the colonies, but they were there for the purpose of trade and tax collection to benefit of the Crown and those in England.

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- SalamiDommie@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Ditto
  
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Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s not silly. It’s ignorant and dangerous.

America is very broken, but the concept of taxes is how we have roads, bridges, first responders, teachers and a number of any decent society’s basic needs that the free market didn’t give a FUCK about.

Too many ignorant folks who don’t understand a progressive tax system, focus on the wrong “enemy” (the minimum wage either versus the trillionaire) and completely buy into the rhetoric you defend here that perpetuates that. And end up voting for people that take everything, build nothing and create the hell these purple irrationally feared in the first place.

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- SalamiDommie@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You are extrapolating a lot from what I said. It’s a silly for fun meme, and not mine.
  
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