This day in 1765

[Little-Acorn]

On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, imposing new, unwelcome taxes on the American people. This and other such acts, eventually led to the American Revolution.

It was an example of a government that felt it had no restrictions on what it could do, imposing an unwelcome program on a people far away, whose protests they ignored. Eventually, thousands of deaths later, that government was completely expelled from the American continent, and a new one set up in its place.

"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."

 

[AtheismIsReality]

We need a rolls eyes smiley.

That was about taxation without representation.
We have representation now. If you don't like them, see if you can vote them out.

However, there is a certain irony that the colonists didn't want to pay taxes to support the military that fought for them. Seems like nothing has changed.

 

[Greco]

"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."

Yup, that's why the Republican Party has been relegated to a party of tinfoil hat wearers. They seem incapable of learning from history. They were rejected in the last two national elections, and all their lies, distortions, and fear mongering left them losers once again as Congress passed health insurance reform.