Re:Self-Funding Harberger Taxes
by vundercind on Thursday December 05, 2024 @11:11AM
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The Boston Tea Party was because the British made tea cheaper which undercut tea smugglers.
If anything, product dumping (which happened to improve the lives of tea consumers, but hurt smugglers) was the motivation, not taxation. In that case.
the stamp act, the townshend act, the boston tea party, etc...
might be "tax what you want less of" could be... citizens.