history question about the boston tea party?

Question

In your opinon were the colonists justified in refusing to pay taxes? Explain your answer

Answer 1

Not really; look at the taxes on a loaf of bread in the here and now; 117 of them. To think those poor country schmucks revolted over a lousey two cents!!!! We are overdue for another revolution; all we have to do is put down the beer and remote and get our dead you-know-whats.

Answer 2

No-Everybody has to pay taxes whether they like it or not. Otherwise there is no funding for Schools, Hospitals, Roads etc.

The British had been subsidising the colonials for decades prior to the Revolution. The American colonials paid far less in taxes than there British opposite number. Great Britain had spent a fortune defending them from French invasion and had been repaid with rampant smuggling, violent assaults on officials, and blatant (and often false) accusations by Samuel Adams. Was it to much to expect the Colonials to provide some of the funding for their own benefits?

The British Government had bent over backwards to provide a decent deal (far better than was necessary). This was rejected out of hand by those who had a vested interest in profiteering for their own greedy ends.

Answer 3

Yes - good question - would like to elaborate - but smited with a wicked flu bug within hours.
But as today, esp. in other countries people are taxed to death.
The tea revolt was a demonstration of the last straw.
The Brits were simply bullying far too much for services provided.
Pompous indeed.

Answer 4

Yes. They wanted to govern themselves and not be tied to England and King George just kept taxing them on everything. They just got fed up when he imposed the tax on imports and exports.

Answer 5

Yes, taxes are bad. Like Michael Jackson bad, do you disagree with me that we shouldn't be paying Michael to babysit? Cuz I'm objectively right.