The Whiskey Rebellion by Murray N. Rothbard � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

The Whiskey Rebellion by Murray N. Rothbard � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

..... This Official View turns out to be dead wrong. In the first place, we must realize the depth of hatred of Americans for what was called “internal taxation” (in contrast to an “external tax” such as a tariff). Internal taxes meant that the hated tax man would be in your face and on your property, searching, examining your records and your life, and looting and destroying.

The most hated tax imposed by the British had been the Stamp Tax of 1765, on all internal documents and transactions; if the British had kept this detested tax, the American Revolution would have occurred a decade earlier, and enjoyed far greater support than it eventually received.

Americans, furthermore.....
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