Source: Chasing Liberty
by Jeff Charles
“Townshend’s Revenue Act of 1767 imposed import duties on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. Guess who the colonists typically had to buy these goods from? That’s right, good ol’ Great Britain. Still, all in all, American colonists paid about one to three percent of their income in taxes to the Crown. Yet this, along with other grievances, was enough to prompt the colonists to start shooting those damned redcoats. One would think that after defeating the British, those who established the new government might take a lesson. At first, they did.” (10/30/25)
https://www.libertychasers.com/p/they-fought-a-revolution-over-pennies