I like how the whole story about a few rich ppl taking the opportunity to profit even more is that much different to what’s happening now.
Hot damn finally a good one
2019?
Meaning ??🤔🤔🤔
It says copyright 2019 in the corner.
That’s part of the cartoon l suppose 🤔🤔🤔
Pardon my ignorance. I thought this was Trump’s first try at tariff wars, but I was wrong. He has also done so in his first term.
Really ?🤔🤔🤔
Anyways, l’m not a citizen of the States.
Neither am I.
He did try it then too
America then: No taxation without representation
America now: Puerto rico gets taxed. No representation.
Same with the residents of DC
Same with consumers since 2025.
At the time of the revolution, the taxation rate in the 13 colonies was 10% what was being paid by people in England. The whole thing was a lie.
Pretty sure it was the whole no taxation without representation thing that spurred that revolt
When the executive is acting outside of their authority and ignoring the legislative and judicial branches, do we really have a representative democracy anymore?
You’re being a bit hyperbolic there.
Naw, it was the Iron Act restricting the right to bear shovels.
I think of this way too much.
Unfortunately, Americans have been tamed and brainwashed by their own government.
I think the internet and foreign interference also make it a bit more complicated than that.
Americans today… “Tea is for fags.”
You know how Mark Twain said he came in with Halley’s Comet, and he’d go out with it too? That’s us, but with tariffs.
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I understand it’s a little bit different than that. https://youtu.be/uoOEd80IEBE
There was an alternative, but the other methods were cheaper and illegal. Looking up another source( correct me if either is wrong https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/tea-brewing-revolution ) this wasn’t just a thing in America, and it was resulting in a lot of stock sitting on the shelves. The problem was when they made the price go down, and the alternative just illegal.
Seems like people still don’t know the difference between tax and tariffs.
Educate us. What’s the difference?
Taxes are paid at the time of sale, or when profits are generated. Tariffs are prepaid. Companies that import raw materials and goods need large amounts of cash to pay the tariffs at the port.
This makes tariffs profoundly more expensive.
Tariffs are also imposed on foreign trade, which doesn’t apply in this meme, as it was a British colony at that time.
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Taxes, “freedom”, “liberty”, “independence”… all these rallying calls were just dogwhistles the American oligarchs used to get the colonists to revolt against the British oligarchs, because they wanted to get rid of the competition. The long con is still going on, the US is and always has been owned and operated by the rich for the benefit of the rich. The mask is just slipping a bit now.
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Unmute this meme immediately!
The ones who voted for the tariffs either didn’t know this happened, forgot, or see a lovely shade of plaid when they look up into what we call the sky.
