William George Ferguson wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:52:06 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Citizen Bob Actual) wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:58:18 -0700, Artie Decko <Art@deccovillage.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>> > My favorite day. The day the Brits got their asses kicked.
> >
> >>> How is that? No battles were fought until some time later.
> >
> >>It is the day credited with the signing of the Declaration of
> >>Independence. But actually it wasn't. It was signed on the 3rd, and
> >>"ratified" by congress on the 5th.
> >
> >>And the Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on nearby Breeds
> >>Hill. They looked pretty much the same in the fog...
> >
> >An overlooked aspect of the American Revolutionary War is that it was
> >begun over gun rights. Gen. Gage ordered his troops to seize the
> >Colonists' powder magazine and the first shot of the war was to stop
> >it.
>
> The American Revolutionary War was fought over the removal of special tax
> breaks. The American colonials weren't paying the excise tax that all
> British citizens in Britain had to pay. When Pariament voted to require
> the colonials to pay the same tax everyone else did, the colonials rebelled
> (I am not making this up, I'm not even distorting it). When the colonials
> sloganeered 'No Taxation Withough Representation', they weren't advocating
> representation, they were opposing taxation.

Why didn't the British Parliament then pass a law saying "Okay,
colonists, you
can send representatives to Parliament. Now pay your taxes!"?

Tim Bruening wrote:
>
> William George Ferguson wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:52:06 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Citizen Bob Actual) wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:58:18 -0700, Artie Decko <Art@deccovillage.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> My favorite day. The day the Brits got their asses kicked.
>>>>> How is that? No battles were fought until some time later.
>>>> It is the day credited with the signing of the Declaration of
>>>> Independence. But actually it wasn't. It was signed on the 3rd, and
>>>> "ratified" by congress on the 5th.
>>>> And the Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on nearby Breeds
>>>> Hill. They looked pretty much the same in the fog...
>>> An overlooked aspect of the American Revolutionary War is that it was
>>> begun over gun rights. Gen. Gage ordered his troops to seize the
>>> Colonists' powder magazine and the first shot of the war was to stop
>>> it.
>> The American Revolutionary War was fought over the removal of special tax
>> breaks. The American colonials weren't paying the excise tax that all
>> British citizens in Britain had to pay. When Pariament voted to require
>> the colonials to pay the same tax everyone else did, the colonials rebelled
>> (I am not making this up, I'm not even distorting it). When the colonials
>> sloganeered 'No Taxation Withough Representation', they weren't advocating
>> representation, they were opposing taxation.
>
> Why didn't the British Parliament then pass a law saying "Okay,
> colonists, you
> can send representatives to Parliament. Now pay your taxes!"?


most Brits couldn't vote at the time either - they still paid taxes.

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