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The American Revolutionary war supposedly being over "no taxation without representation" is the biggest con in the history of the world. Great Britain instituted the Stamp Act to pay for the 10,000 British soldiers it left in the colonies after the French and Indian war to keep the peace between the colonists and the indians. They passed the bill for that off on the colonists through various taxes such as the stamp act and the sugar act. But the Brits not only protected the colonists from the indians but they also protected the indians from the colonists by halting westward expansion past the "proclamation line." While this didn't stop all settlers, it did prevent land speculators like Goerge Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin from taking title to thousands of acres of land on the other side of that line.
See: https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/julyaugust/feature/the-history-the-stamp-act-shows-how-indians-led-the-american-revo#:~:text=Colonists%20objected%20to%20the%20Stamp,men%20sent%20to%20enforce%20it.
Then, after the ratification of the U.S. constitution, the federal government put an excise tax on whiskey which disproportionatly affected western farmers. Yet it was justified under the theory that "Well you had representatives in congress."
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