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: Bill of Rights being nullified by new law
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year’s Eve. I doubt many Americans noticed its implications because they do not yet comprehend the big picture. This law, coupled with the Patriot Act, is paving the way for America’s direction toward tyranny.
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Letter: $14 trillion debt started by previous president
I’m a proud atheist who’s lucky enough to know the difference between fact and fantasy.
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Letter: Economy putting people in the gutters
We are now getting the results of putting people in the gutters. We need to take a second look at our government and its policies. It’s not working.
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Viewpoint: Look at Creation Museum from an educational, scientific perspective
I encourage any and all who have interest in this vitally important topic to “go to the source,” to invest the time and energy into exploring The Creation Museum for themselves.
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Letter: Blame the voters for our Congress
Why is insider trading legal for Congress and illegal for the rest of us? They make and enact laws for all of us, but then exempt members of Congress. Somehow this doesn’t seem to pass the smell test.
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Letter: Smith’s firings appear vindictive
Anderson is a city of negative publicity and actions. Why else is Sears leaving? Can we stand four years of vindictive actions and negative reporting?
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Letter: Planned devaluation of dollar is coming
I’ve submitted letters regarding the existence of a global elite for years now. I’m now submitting another one in which I hope readers will take note of.
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Viewpoint: Myra Kraft inspiration for Patriots
If there was one good reason for the Patriots to win the Super Bowl, it would be because of what I had read.
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Viewpoint: Anderson a microcosm of America
Wherever I have found comments that I felt were outside the values I believe in or were plain misinformation I have spoken out. At times that has been done with a lack of eloquence.
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Viewpoint: Problems in Anderson go back to President Carter
On Jan. 21, Frank Couch of Anderson stated that political conservatives “just don’t get it.” He sort of indicates Sears’ closing in Anderson is due to the new mayor being Republican.
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Letter: Bill of Rights being nullified by new law
