Pedantic fact alert:
It wasn’t the “taxation”, that’s half of it,
it was “taxation without representation”.Like right now? When my gop senators are completely ignoring their constituents and protecting pedophiles and a president with alzheimers? That kind of taxation without representation?
What sword is pictured here?
The hilt looks like his silver hilted small sword, but the blade looks more like a saber.
I think it was a fing-longer.
And then it comes full circle 15 years later when he’s leading an army to confront people that don’t want to pay a whiskey tax.
“Franklin smote the ground and out sprang—George Washington. Fully grown, and on his horse. Franklin then electrified them with his magnificent lightning rod and the three of them—Franklin, Washington, and the horse—conducted the entire Revolution all by themselves.” - John Adams
Washington, Washington
Six-foot-twenty, fucking killing for fun
This guy does not know His Royal Majesty’s Inland Revenue.
Corporate tool
And in this case the tool of literal slave corporations.
If only the crown knew all they had to do was say that the other countries would pay the taxes.