Sadly, it is looking like the Bat-Soup Stasi is right agin - the "American"
revolution was nothing but a ruse to create chaos and war debts, for greedy
bankers, after which "the colony's tax debt tripled"!
Now that's funny - in a true, and black comedy style of funny.
Unlike the article's title though, the American revolution was no mistake
whatsoever, but an extremely well calculated ploy by a few greedy and power
hungry men to claim that which was not theirs, on the blood and deception of
the people (admittedly by way of at least a pretence of a worthy cause of "The
history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries
and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these States."):
Was The American Revolution A Mistake?
Gary North via The Daily Reckoning,
https://dailyreckoning.com/was-the-american-revolution-a-mistake-2/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/was-american-revolution-mistake
..So as a result of the American Revolution, the tax burden tripled.
The debt burden soared as soon as the Revolution began. Monetary
inflation wiped out the currency system. Price controls in 1777 produced the
debacle of Valley Forge.
..“There Was No British Tyranny, and Surely Not in North America”
Only after the price control laws were repealed in 1778 could the Army
buy food again. But the hyperinflation of the Continentals and state-issued
currencies replaced the pre-Revolution system of silver currency: Spanish
pieces of eight.
The proponents of independence invoked British tyranny in North America.
But there was no British tyranny in North America.
In 1872, Frederick Engels wrote an article, “On Authority.” He criticized
anarchists, whom he called anti-authoritarians. His description of the
authoritarian character of all armed revolutions should remind us of the costs
of revolution.
A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it
is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other
part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such
there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in
vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire
in the reactionists.
..After the American Revolution, 46,000 British Loyalists fled to Canada
and other places controlled by the crown. They were not willing to swear
allegiance to the new Colonial governments. They retained their loyalty to the
nation that had delivered to them the greatest liberty on Earth. They had not
committed treason.
The revolutionaries are not remembered as treasonous. The victors write
the history books.
The Boston Tea Party: A Protest Against Lower Tea Prices
What would libertarians — even conservatives — give today in order to
return to an era in which the central government extracted 1% of the nation’s
wealth? Where there was no income tax?
Would they describe such a society as tyrannical?
That the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence was signed
by the richest smuggler in North America was no coincidence. He was hopping
mad. Parliament in 1773 had cut the tax on tea imported by the British East
India Co., so the cost of British tea went lower than the smugglers’ cost on
non-British tea.
This had cost Hancock a pretty penny. The Tea Party had stopped the
unloading of the tea by throwing privately owned tea off a privately owned ship
— a ship in competition with Hancock’s ships. The Boston Tea Party was, in
fact, a well-organized protest against lower prices stemming from lower taxes.
So once again, I’m not celebrating the Fourth of July today.
