Posted on May 17, 2021
George Washington criticizes “taxation without representation”
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On May 17, 1769, George Washington launches a legislative salvo at Great Britain’s fiscal and judicial attempts to maintain its control over the American colonies. With his sights set on protesting the British policy of “taxation without representation,” Washington brought a package of non-importation resolutions before the Virginia House of Burgesses.
The resolutions, drafted by George Mason largely in response to England’s passage of the Townshend Acts of 1767, decried Parliament’s plan to send colonial political protestors to England for trial. Though Virginia’s royal governor promptly fired back by disbanding the House of Burgesses, the dissenting legislators were undeterred. During a makeshift meeting held at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia’s delegates gave their support to the non-importation resolutions. Maryland and South Carolina soon followed suit with the passing of their own non-importation measures.
On May 17, 1769, George Washington launches a legislative salvo at Great Britain’s fiscal and judicial attempts to maintain its control over the American colonies. With his sights set on protesting the British policy of “taxation without representation,” Washington brought a package of non-importation resolutions before the Virginia House of Burgesses.
The resolutions, drafted by George Mason largely in response to England’s passage of the Townshend Acts of 1767, decried Parliament’s plan to send colonial political protestors to England for trial. Though Virginia’s royal governor promptly fired back by disbanding the House of Burgesses, the dissenting legislators were undeterred. During a makeshift meeting held at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia’s delegates gave their support to the non-importation resolutions. Maryland and South Carolina soon followed suit with the passing of their own non-importation measures.
George Washington criticizes “taxation without representation”
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I wonder how he felt about justified taxation. I think he, and other Patriots, understood some taxes had to be levied in order to provide national security. As the years went by politicians decided to begin serious taxation to fund their pork barrel spending, thus ensuring their ability to remain in office at the taxpayers expense.
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Suckers of the democratic side push the notion that we were trying to get away from England because England wanted to abolish slavery as part of a stupid 1619project when England did not outlaw slavery until 1833. This is part of the Marxist ideology to keep that's divided that prevent reconciliation. Many people are against this faulty social science mandate by the president and a lieutenant colonel in the space force was relieved for questioning this false narrative.
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SGT Mary G.
PVT Mark Zehner - Really! That a wheelbarrow is required to cart around a published bill being debated in our legislative branch, emphasizes that. Wondering how many legislators actually read the entire bill and know what they are voting on unless they or another legislator, and/or a lot of constituents object to a portion of it, which then brings only a portion of the bill up for debate.
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