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Fun fact: the Boston tea party was done not because of a tea tax, but because the participants were tea smugglers that use to have ships dock at another port and moved the tea by land into Boston. The tea tax would have actually made the British tea CHEAPER than their product. It had fuck all to do with liberty and everything to do with profit.
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