Taxes , I'll give you Taxes .

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The Empire was broke , George 3rd was in need of a new crown Parliament was in a turmoil as to what to do one MP said lets Tax the American Colonies jolly good said the others and all was well , well not quite the Colonies refused to pay the tax so a new country was formed the new country is now paying tax on the tax .

[Sir John]

"so a new country was formed the new country is now paying tax on the tax .'


and so you should, think of all those back taxes as yet unpaid! (plus compound interest of course!) The outstanding amount is now just short of US$17 trillion!

....and as I have tried to explain here, George 3rd was NOT the bloke making the decisions, he was just the 'mouthpiece' for the British Parliament. All done in his name!


SJ

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Geo.3rd was a pain in the ass both to Parliament and the Colonies . Liz on the other hand seems to be a good sport and has probably seen it all , putting up with the three stooges her sons and daughter Anne you have to have a sense of humor but she was really taxed to the limit when Camilla showed up , gad .

[Sir John]

an aside, the Australian 'colonies' raised taxes and charges, but AFAIK, never remitted any of the funds back to London. It was all spent running the place here.

As we were settled as a direct result of the loss of the American colonies, I expect they had learned a lesson in colonial management.

...and when we took the decision to federate as 'Australia' in 1901, we got nothing but full co-operation and support.

no need for a revolution.


SJ

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There is not an equivalent to Royalty in the U.S. though we have many who act like it , but they come and go , so we borrow the Empires Royalty to titillate over and it works well enough in small doses , a full time Royalty would cause a riot even the gunner would have to come out of retirement .