The Tea Act wasn’t quite what many modern Americans imagine. For starters, it didn’t raise tаxes on tea. Instead, the Act had a surprising effect: It made the tea delivered to the colonies cheaper.
best line I think....Adams knew that tyranny must be resisted early, even when the initial encroachments on liberty are small. When small intrusions on liberty stand, bigger, more tyrannical intrusions will follow.
Too few, these days, consider the long term effects of the laws and regulations foist upon them by their elected representatives. Today, it's not "taxation without representation," it's "taxation by misrepresentation."
This is fascinating. I was a tourguide at the Boston Tea Party Museum in the 1980s, and read everything they had to read at that time...but never understood this the way you have explained it. Thank you!
For the last 100 years we (America) has been asleep at the wheel. That complacency has allowed tyranny to abound. Samuel Adams is greatly disappointed in US.
Interesting Tara! I see so many similarities to what happened in your country as with what is happening in Canada.
Under old British laws, Ontario y Quebec have the majority senators, the western provinces vote does not count when there is a federal election. British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan y Manitoba know which party has won the election before their votes are counted. The western provinces are Taxed without Represention.
There is a group in Alberta who want to become the 51st State in the USA. Alberta is sitting on the 3rd largest oil y gas deposits in the world. Many including myself believe that a union with the United States would do well for both Alberta y the USA.
Not what I was told all those years ago. To answer the question the founders would not recognize the country they founded. They would want to succeed from the union they started
Thank you Tara for correcting the history that I had learned. I agree with our ancestors, the creation of a monopoly to purchase tea was not liberty, it was the opposite.
John Adams was correct, that the people never rise without doing something noble. The manner in which the Sons of Liberty acted surely sent a louder message than had the shipments of tea been mere acts of theft and sabotage.
Yes, we the people have been having our liberties curtailed and eliminated via acts of government largesse and smash acts for the "greater good". The past 100 years have seen massive curtailment of our freedom and the swiftness of government control has escalated over the past 30 years.
The past 2 years has seen such infringement of our first and second amendment rights that both are now in danger of being eliminated. I think that the swiftness of change may have awakened the sleeping majority and the response may not be as orderly and peaceful as John Adams described following the Boston Tea Party.
Interesting that what pushed the colonists to resist was their vision of freedom rather than the principal of cheaper goods. Government interference in free markets stifles competition and innovation every time.
Great story. Great new information and insights on what happened.
I was indeed thinking about modern developments while reading it.
We as liberty-loving Americans have to think about more than just instant gratification or we'll be herded into submission to tyranny.
And not just government. In the modern era enormous private companies and organizations have almost as much power as government to control and manipulate us.
Small government. Small business. Small social and professional organizations. Big, independent Americans.
best line I think....Adams knew that tyranny must be resisted early, even when the initial encroachments on liberty are small. When small intrusions on liberty stand, bigger, more tyrannical intrusions will follow.
You mean, like the ones we live under now because we failed to heed Samuel Adam's advice?
Too few, these days, consider the long term effects of the laws and regulations foist upon them by their elected representatives. Today, it's not "taxation without representation," it's "taxation by misrepresentation."
This is fascinating. I was a tourguide at the Boston Tea Party Museum in the 1980s, and read everything they had to read at that time...but never understood this the way you have explained it. Thank you!
I believe the founding fathers would be horrified to see the current state of our freedoms that they gave so much for.
For the last 100 years we (America) has been asleep at the wheel. That complacency has allowed tyranny to abound. Samuel Adams is greatly disappointed in US.
Interesting Tara! I see so many similarities to what happened in your country as with what is happening in Canada.
Under old British laws, Ontario y Quebec have the majority senators, the western provinces vote does not count when there is a federal election. British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan y Manitoba know which party has won the election before their votes are counted. The western provinces are Taxed without Represention.
There is a group in Alberta who want to become the 51st State in the USA. Alberta is sitting on the 3rd largest oil y gas deposits in the world. Many including myself believe that a union with the United States would do well for both Alberta y the USA.
Not what I was told all those years ago. To answer the question the founders would not recognize the country they founded. They would want to succeed from the union they started
Thank you Tara for correcting the history that I had learned. I agree with our ancestors, the creation of a monopoly to purchase tea was not liberty, it was the opposite.
John Adams was correct, that the people never rise without doing something noble. The manner in which the Sons of Liberty acted surely sent a louder message than had the shipments of tea been mere acts of theft and sabotage.
Yes, we the people have been having our liberties curtailed and eliminated via acts of government largesse and smash acts for the "greater good". The past 100 years have seen massive curtailment of our freedom and the swiftness of government control has escalated over the past 30 years.
The past 2 years has seen such infringement of our first and second amendment rights that both are now in danger of being eliminated. I think that the swiftness of change may have awakened the sleeping majority and the response may not be as orderly and peaceful as John Adams described following the Boston Tea Party.
Interesting that what pushed the colonists to resist was their vision of freedom rather than the principal of cheaper goods. Government interference in free markets stifles competition and innovation every time.
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Great story. Great new information and insights on what happened.
I was indeed thinking about modern developments while reading it.
We as liberty-loving Americans have to think about more than just instant gratification or we'll be herded into submission to tyranny.
And not just government. In the modern era enormous private companies and organizations have almost as much power as government to control and manipulate us.
Small government. Small business. Small social and professional organizations. Big, independent Americans.
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