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Taxation without representation. The battle cry of many during the early revolutionary days of our
nation’s founding and the thought that it was the primary reasoning for launching the act of defiance
that we all know today as the “Boston Tea Party.” But it goes much deeper than that. The colonists were
fed up with having to pay for the French and Indian wars the British were fighting, that in no way
represented their interests, being taxed at increasing rates for common goods they used, and having a
premium placed on items that were considered “luxuries.” Fast forward more than two hundred years
later and here we stand having our pocketbooks raided by greedy hands as we watch the latest in
bomber technologies fly into lands for no explicable reasoning other than a nebulous statement and
falsified fears. We scrimp by for necessities, and the simplest of pleasures comes with an ever-increasing
price tag. But things are great again right?
This week’s guest on The Malliard Report has had e…
