What our Forefathers fought for

[multigraincracker]

No Taxation without Representation
the fight for voting rights

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Maybe we only earned the right to vote on tax issues

Sam Adams was a masterful propagandist and expanded the issues. So said JC Miller in the 1930s.

https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Adams-Propaganda-John-Miller/dp/0804700249

[The Magistrate]

2. In Boston Then, Sir

They were fighting to maintain a profitable smuggling racket. For a long time the English excise on tea had kept the price high enough smugglers could readily undercut it. The regulations were changed so the East India Company could sell tea to the colonies directly, without London middlemen and taxes. Think along the lines of a cartel mob attacking marijuana dispensaries to get the thing into some modern orientation....

[Midnight Writer]

3. I look at it as workers fighting against a tax cut for the rich.