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I'm in the middle of a book about the "Boston Tea Party". Our Forefathers saw this coming long ago. They boycotted tea over a 3% tax. The tea rotted in warehouses until the East India Company lowered the price to make up the difference and then some, tea was to be actually cheaper than before the tax. The colonists said no way it's about the tax, not the price. The principle, stupid. The Brits forced the tea into American harbors. It was dumped, the Governor's house was ransacked and robbed. Principle. We gotta get one of those, a principle....
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