Yeah! Fuck Britain for making us pay for the war we started with France! Why, I heard they’re charging less for tea than us local businessmen are! Lets go smash the cheap tea to protect our price gouging!
My favorite unspoken truth about the American revolution is that the French and Indian War (or the Seven Years War, for everyone else in the world) was literally started by George Washington. Kinda takes the wind out of the sails of people talking about unfair taxation when your founder was the reason for the war that those taxes were needed for.
Yeah! Fuck Britain for making us pay for the war we started with France! Why, I heard they’re charging less for tea than us local businessmen are! Lets go smash the cheap tea to protect our price gouging!
Well yeah.
But fuck the brits
My favorite unspoken truth about the American revolution is that the French and Indian War (or the Seven Years War, for everyone else in the world) was literally started by George Washington. Kinda takes the wind out of the sails of people talking about unfair taxation when your founder was the reason for the war that those taxes were needed for.