The difference is that you lefttwits are protesting tariffs levied BY the USA against other countries, not AGAINST the USA, by a foreign power, as was the case back then.
You are hating on and protesting against your OWN country, making you treasonous scum.
No president in history has dared to try anything like this. Will it work? It's possible. I'm willing to wait and see while judiciously buying cheap stock during market fluctuations, just like I did during COVID, and making out like a fat rat.
Actually, two other presidents did this. You don't even know your own history. The only difference is, that the previous two didn't work, and Trump didn't learn his history either. He is doing it to make himself and the wealthier Americans more money while keeping the poor down. What am I doing?
For now, we're staying. My grandfather was a highly decorated WWII veteran who was so proud of his country that he refused to visit Ireland a second time because he knew he would move there and that was in the '80s. I am staying for now for him, not me.
Here's the deal. Trump is using tariffs to level the playing field, among other things. The middle class has been decimated by trade imbalances, primarily with China. You can't have free trade with a country that employs slave labor and uses currency manipulation.
Wow, as if the US doesn't use slave labor?! What do you call all the people who are here illegally or overstayed a visa? They work the jobs here for pennies on the dollar compared to what those born here make and even then most aren't making enough to make ends meet. The tariffs raise the price
If Trump was deporting only those who were criminals, only the violent people with offenses and been through the courts to have their guilt established, I would support it. Hell, I'd support revoking citizenship to citizens that were rapists, murderers, and massive drug or sex traffickers. Not
of goods for us. WE PAY the price. WE are the ones that suffer for it. With all the automation of jobs and having someone in government now who wants to fully automate every single job, that isn't even an option. It won't be slave labor, it will be AI labor and we'll still have to import stuff.
We, those who are not multimillionaires or billionaires will suffer. They don't. They can afford to weather the storm. Some of us cannot. So go tell the 90% of the country that aren't upper middle class or above that they must suffer so the rich get richer.
As for tariffs that you impose on other countries ... they don't pay it, you do dumbass, so putting a tariff on other country's goods means it is a tax that buyers here pay to sell those products, which raises the prices that you must pay to have that good. It's a price hike for us not them!
The Boston Tea Party was because of the British implementation of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. The East India Company sold tea from China in the colonies without paying taxes. It was the Townshend Acts that imposed taxes.
The SoL opposed the Townshend Act taxes which they saw as a violation of their rights as Englishmen to "no taxation without representation." In other words, it was not a tariff at all from any other country. It was the English taxing the English in the colonies. NOT the same thing at all idiot!
It would really help if you learned history. We didn't like being taxed by our own country, which is why we fought and became our own country and said FU to the British. No other country put a tariff on us at that time, just the opposite as there was no tariff from China ... wtf is wrong with you?!
I hate to correct this, because a lot of the economic motivation in the American Revolution was about duty control, but the Boston Tea Party specifically was outrage about granting the British East India Company being given a colonial monopoly on the tea trade, locking out alternatives for Americans
As long as we're being pedantic the Tea Party was an accumulation of grievances that grew out of the Townshed Acts, which were technically duties and not tariffs.
As long as we're being especially pedantic there were obviously a series of grievances that led to the event, and this was definitely part of it, while the East India company monopoly was the proverbial straw. The duties were also tariffs from the perspective of the colonial American economy
To be especially especially pedantic, they main difference between a duty and tariff is that tariffs are designed to regulate foreign trade, while in this case the crown wasn't technically foreign. But that's only if we want to be especially especially pedantic
To be slightly less pedantic, both tariffs and duties are traditionally used to refer to regulation of foreign trade, so either way... However to be especially especially especially pedantic, you could consider the level of different governance and culture to constitute "foreignness" regardless
Doesn’t matter: Founding Fathers knew imposition of tariffs was required for a fledging Nation to protect it against European trade hegemony, so 1st Congress passed Tariff Act of 1789.
It wasn’t POTUS1 (Washington) getting a wild hair up his ass to start trade wars; Congress had to 1st pass Act.
you missed it for a while they were praising John Brown when Donny diaper was running for reelection, they embraced his idea of fighting the government until they discovered who he was fighting for
OMG you are seriously not gonna believe this. I trust Rachel Maddow but if it were anyone else reporting this I’d be convinced this is fake news. Unbelievable but unfortunately, totally believable. How the f@ck could Congress let this continue to happen????
Another fun fact, when the Tea Party movement first got started people laughed and scoffed. No one is laughing now. This movement #HandsOff is far more powerful. Why? Because everyone is welcome. EVERYONE. Only one group benefits from the chaos machine and yo-yo government. And it's not the 99%.
The entire country going no contact and gray rocking the malignant narcissistic abuser is working like gang busters. If you don’t take the bait and refuse to engage, all they get is yet another hyperventilating lunatic PR mess.
Fun fact it was nothing to do with tariffs and the founding fathers were pretty much pro tariff, tariffs were the first major piece of legislation the USA passed (Tariff Act of 1789) under vastly different circumstances though.
The problem is, Trump probably has no clue what the Boston Tea Party was or when it even happened! And if by surprise he does, it's probably something he'll have his Administration erase away...
Yeah, but my understanding is that it was actually a publicity stunt that was the result of colonial oligarchs who themselves wanted to control taxation and trade rather than the monarch who refused to recognize them as nobility
tRump isn't a king...he is a fool. He is like Burr and the Blennerhassets plotting to create an Empire for himself but he's nothing more than a traitor, like Burr.
I'm not a historian by any means so grain of salt etc but I don't think it was that well thought through. The colonial states were upset that they were being unfairly, in their eyes of course, treated. The tax, or in this case tariff, was just the breaking point. So yes, technically, but also no.
The word tariff just didn't mean anything to my generation when we were sitting in 10th grade US History...but it will to this current generation of students.
Wonder how many MAGA as well as dt knew that? Reading and being curious are a good thing. Trump has zero intellectual curiosity because he thinks he knows everything already. That's delusional thinking and very dangerous.
Damn straight! Blows my mind how the Boston Tea Party is considered Patriotic, but when we do it now they are not “no not like that”. Maybe we need to cost companies the loss of their product like we did with the tea to actually matter.
The cause of Rev. War was colonists objecting to “taxation w/out representation”.
In US Constitution, “We, the People” are represented by House (our elected representatives), who SOLELY have the power of impose taxes on us w/ our consent (if we don’t agree, we can vote them out).
Only Legislative Branch has that Constitutional authority (it’s called “power of the purse”), & not Executive Branch, who’s job it is to EXECUTE laws passed by Congress, whether it’s operating IRS (Revenue Act of 1862) or imposing tariffs.
Exactly. The out-of-date tea was "taxed or not" at the whim of the East India Tea Company, thus they were able to undercut the prices of local merchants by charging less.
A company was given the ability to tax or not, and keep it all.
Thus taxation without representation. Thus the tea dumping.
Yes, I know. One of my tenants is a witch. But my only knowledge of witches comes from The Wizard of Oz, Bewitched, and Monty Python skits and movies. No offense intended.
The Tea Party was more broadly a protest against taxation without representation. The Great Orange Shitbag has removed We The People, via Congress, from today’s equation.
“Our trade policy should not be based on retaliation, but on results.” Ronald Reagan
In this powerful moment from 1987, President Reagan warns against the dangers of protectionism and highlights the importance of free markets. Over 38 years later, the debate on tariffs and trade is still heating up.
Here in Va since 2010 or 11 you can purchase Gadsden flag license plate from DMV. When you see one there is a good chance there will be a tRump sticker on the vehicle. They are getting tread all over daily and it’s like “thank you sir may I have another”. MAGA morons.
Personally, I think that is what individuals are limited to, but my concern is that we have become such an individualist society (an oxymoron for sure) that I wonder how many will make the effort, especially if it is more essential for some than others. Yet, there are countless ways to do it. As a
single person it’s nearly impossible, and not at all cost efficient to buy groceries for one. Therefore, I always have more of nearly everything I make than I can eat. But with a bad back, it’s hard for me to do all of my yard work, and hiring someone is too expensive. I think one of the biggest
barriers people have to get past is trying to match trades to an exact value. So many people have a worldview that everyone is always out to cheat them. I truly wonder if our society as a whole could be successful, even for a relatively short time. We accuse the rich of being greedy, and most are,
The real....
These people are behind the actual policies behind almost every inhuman fascist move the new administration has made so far
The Project 2025 Posse
This is treason
Vance Miller
Levitte Homan
Vought Lutnick
Carr Navarro
Ratcliffe Bondi
Do we have to do this again? This time it's Mad Orange King in our own country. At least we don't have to wait for them to arrive from across the pond.
The truth is important.
The Boston tea party was the 1%'s destroying a ship load of tea with no tax on it as it hurt their price gouging of the American people.
The answer usually reveals itself when you ask who profits.
May 10'73: Parliament gave the EIC a monopoly on colonial sales and duty-free exports to the colonies. This lowered the prices of English tea relative to smuggled Dutch EIC tea.
Dec 16'73: The Boston Tea Party was smugglers dumping rival legit goods.
The Boston Tea Party involved the destruction of legally imported, cheaper British tea, not because of the price, but because the EIC’s monopoly was seen as a Trojan horse for greater British control and an attack on colonial autonomy—especially for elites who profited from the black market.
The brittish tea was cheaper because it was duty free. The story is more complicated than we learn but to say it wasn't about tariffs and taxation is simply not true.
Fun fact: If the US hadn't revolted, it'd probably be much better today - it would have sensible parliamentary govt under a constitutional monarchy, not a dictator. Like Australia/Canada/NZ, etc.
1776 wasn't really about kings. The UK was already a constitutional monarchy by then.
Well, I guess my friends and I should have thought twice, 250 years ago and we wouldn't have had to wait all these centuries to have ourselves another mad king and a bonus dictator.
That was over a 3% Tariff! 3%! You better believe we are all about to pay way more than 3%! We better find a way to stop this runaway train before it takes all of us over a cliff (if it hasn't already).
It's the zionists who are the real problem and are taking over worldwide - UK gov are now zionist, the orange turd is a zionist and works for the terrorist israhell gov - these zionists are the biggest problem in the world today and behind everything going wrong
Yeah I'm feeling pretty strongly in a gerrymandered state in particular that I have taxation with zero fucking representation whatsoever.This government is actively hostile to my interests and the people I care about.
Funny how history works. Like when you hide it and make you and yours look good it’s actually “HIS” story. Another bit of history is that tariffs sank the U.S. economy deeper into the Great Depression. But wait! There’s more. Reagan everyone’s grand dad opposed them. Trump is a dumb dumb.
Fun fact: 100% MAGA have no idea what Boston Tea Party was, what caused it, or what it represents. The sign is echolalia for people with brains. It’s lost on MAGA. It’s as useful as a philosophical bumper sticker.
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They should ban X and Facebook from being utilized at all. That should set the tone.
Such brave patriots, they dressed up as indigenous people to disguise themselves.
You are hating on and protesting against your OWN country, making you treasonous scum.
What's your plan?
Here's the deal. Trump is using tariffs to level the playing field, among other things. The middle class has been decimated by trade imbalances, primarily with China. You can't have free trade with a country that employs slave labor and uses currency manipulation.
* #alttext
FUN FACT: THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
WAS A PROTEST AGAINST A TARIFF.
It wasn’t POTUS1 (Washington) getting a wild hair up his ass to start trade wars; Congress had to 1st pass Act.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671678361/
Hence the Boston Tea Party in the Boston Harbor
We tried to tell you.
If you want to come back into the fold as our 93rd county, we will be kind. We won't even giggle. At least not in front of you.
'Americashire'. It's got a ring to it.
And they ended up paying more tax afterwards anyway
https://www.grunge.com/127967/false-american-revolution-facts-you-always-thought-were-true/
I miss OUR America SO MUCH!
Tea was cheap and the tax was negligible
https://youtu.be/o7jlFZhprU4?si=C8cIy3o5hlRjOVl1
I knew that, and I'm Canadian.
Maga dumbasses eh...
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This one stays here..
Zero tariffs, zero taxes, much better.
The cause of Rev. War was colonists objecting to “taxation w/out representation”.
In US Constitution, “We, the People” are represented by House (our elected representatives), who SOLELY have the power of impose taxes on us w/ our consent (if we don’t agree, we can vote them out).
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/04/05/president-trumps-new-tariffs-are-unconstitutional/#:~:text=Under%20Article%20I%2C%20Section%208,excises—better%20known%20as%20taxes
U do believe in Constitution?
I'm not debating at all..
https://images.app.goo.gl/2sGQ3ZFDy2WXNPi2A
A company was given the ability to tax or not, and keep it all.
Thus taxation without representation. Thus the tea dumping.
proud to be a American.
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In this powerful moment from 1987, President Reagan warns against the dangers of protectionism and highlights the importance of free markets. Over 38 years later, the debate on tariffs and trade is still heating up.
It's the why and how that's important, not just dates.
The protest was because the law stated the colonies had no right to govern themselves.
#ProtectTheConstitution #ProtectTheRuleofLaw #ProtectTheBillofRights
#ProtectTheTruth #ProtectFreedom #ProtectEqualJustice #ProtectOurHistory #ProtectSeparationofDuties #ProtectPublicEducation #ProtectDueProcess #ProtectCompassion #ProtectOurHonor
#ProtectOurFuture🇺🇸
(British East India Company)
“Boston, the original FAFO city!” 💪💪
All the protesters and votes will work out for US
#goptraitors #NoKings
These people are behind the actual policies behind almost every inhuman fascist move the new administration has made so far
The Project 2025 Posse
This is treason
Vance Miller
Levitte Homan
Vought Lutnick
Carr Navarro
Ratcliffe Bondi
Get back to work.
The Boston tea party was the 1%'s destroying a ship load of tea with no tax on it as it hurt their price gouging of the American people.
The answer usually reveals itself when you ask who profits.
May 10'73: Parliament gave the EIC a monopoly on colonial sales and duty-free exports to the colonies. This lowered the prices of English tea relative to smuggled Dutch EIC tea.
Dec 16'73: The Boston Tea Party was smugglers dumping rival legit goods.
It was also because the EIC was a terrifying soulless and oppressive corporation hellbent on killing off any competition.
You gave a broad stroke…
This revolution was planned in a bar-the green dragon tavern
Heck, the only tea destroyed was under consignment by the governor's sons. They weren't even trying to hide it.
It must be having some effects at least
Fuck em still
Good morning Nancy
How was your night???
Let's toss the whole GOP in while we're at it!
Did Americans know it?
1776 wasn't really about kings. The UK was already a constitutional monarchy by then.
The protest was against an assertion in the new law that the colonies had no say in how they were governed.
It also cracked down on smuggling. Many of those organizing it smuggled tea.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2024/01/04/three-misconceptions-about-the-boston-tea-party-tax-edition/
I'm not going to buy a goddamn thing for 3 years