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[+] -9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is that what you were told? The Boston Tea Party was caused by a cut in taxes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The source of the protestors' anger was the passage of the Tea Act by the Parliament of Great Britain on May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company (EIC) to sell Chinese tea in the colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts.

    Checks out

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    So you read all of that, and came away with "checks out"? If they were technically correct, maybe. But the way their post was stated, they implied the colonies were freaking out over a tax cut that benefited them. Instead, it was the age old tradition of cutting taxes for the wealthy and continuing to tax the Americans disproportionately.

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