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Taxation Without Representation: Setting the Stage for Independence

4 July 2011

Today, kids will decorate wagons with streamers and drag them down small town streets while big marching bands play John Philip Sousa tunes. There will be floats and beauty queens with big smiles (and even bigger hair). Smells from cookouts and barbecues will fill neighborhoods as folks fire up the grill to make hotdogs, hamburgers [...]

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Let Them Drink Tea!

4 July 2007

Okay, so nobody ever said that at the Boston Tea Party. But you get the point. It’s the Fourth of July here in the USA – our Independence Day – and I thought it was worth taking a moment to remember why we celebrate. That’s right. Cause it’s all about tax. In the late 18th [...]

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