>>Isn't the U.S. wonderful?!!! :o) so much for fighting taxation in this country... (hey what ever happened to
>>the boston tea party?)
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>Just a reminder. The issue in the American Revolution wasn't taxation, it was taxation without representation.
>The colonists objected to Parliament taxing the heck out of them without giving them a say in the matter.

Now we have representation; how great it is (or is it) -- I think the taxes imposed without representation was lower!!!