Marakesh 𓅦 on Nostr: > "The Founding Fathers rebelled against the British Empire because they were taxed ...

> "The Founding Fathers rebelled against the British Empire because they were taxed [roughly 1%](https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/colonial-life-today/early-american-economics-facts) of their incomes without proper representation in Parliament.  Can you imagine how they would respond to a punitive Leviathan that confiscated 50% of their wealth through a smorgasbord of taxes and regulations?  Or what they would say to a snooping trespasser who tried to tell them what they could and could not do with the watering holes on their family farms?  Or how they might react to a stranger who felt up their wives and daughters in the name of “security”?  Whoah, Nelly!  The men who declared independence from government tyranny and fought a costly war for personal liberty would burn the Deep State to the ground and drive its ashes right into the sea!"

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