At the time of the Boston Tea Party, Colonial drinkers of tea couldn’t have been happier with its price. The British import tariff on tea had been removed for the British East India Company so that the tea left Britain duty free and only the much smaller Colonial tariff was added to the price when it arrived. One would have expected the Colonists to welcome this reduction in tax and retail price but one small group didn’t appreciate the tax reduction, the tea smugglers.
Prior to the removal of the British tariff the Boston tea smugglers could price their product below the British East India tea making it much more affordable. With the removal of the British tariff, the tea sold by the British East India Company was now cheaper than the tea sold by the smugglers, making the smuggled tea not nearly as appealing to consumers. What was well known at the time was that the real beneficiaries of the Boston Tea Party were the tea smugglers and that the cause was a dramatic decrease in the tax on tea, not an increase.
Andy Absher
Anderson
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Letter: Tea smugglers were the real beneficiaries
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Letter: Public should have say on library space
As taxpayers, does the public have no say-so what happens with their tax dollars? With some proper schedule management, those existing meeting rooms can fulfill everyone’s needs.
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Letter: Election fraud tales turn voters away
Columnist Maureen Hayden asked, “Why did 3 million Hoosiers choose not to vote?” She gave a few reasons but I can think of another one.
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Letter: Elected officials should buy insurance
I may be wrong but I thought the city and county were hurting for money, and that’s why services keep getting cut or eliminated. One thing is evident. There is no shortage of money for lawsuits.
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Letter: Source of inequality is not economic
The truth of the collapse of a living-wage economy for working-class America is a social catastrophe and, increasingly, a severe embarrassment to free-market ideology.
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Letter: America following road to tyranny
Global elitists behind our government have methodically been guiding our government toward the New World Order.
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Letter: Let’s work through the problems
On May 14 I attended the county council meeting in hopes that I could understand what is happening in the legislative branch of our Madison County government. What I saw was politics at its worst and I cannot applaud either party.
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Letter: Columnist Brown ignores truth
It’s hard to understand why The Herald Bulletin carries columns by Susan Stamper Brown, who has such a blatant disregard for truth in her conservative propaganda.
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Letter: Taxpayers should thank the ‘few’
Are those who worry about the loss of the wheel tax concerned about the roads or about their jobs? Most of them could care less about people’s needs.
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Letter: Government officials should answer to us
We, the people, have allowed government officials to lead us into the crazy one world order. But, is it working? Well, look at the results.
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Viewpoint: Schools, volunteers reach out to pre-kindergartners, parents
On behalf of Born Learning Connection as service of the United Way of Madison County, I would like to thank all Madison County elementary schools for their generous support in making Blast Off to Kindergarten a countywide success.
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