By Anthony Gregory
In remembering why the American colonists revolted, we should recall that they were not protesting taxes for social security, health care and the like—although I imagine they would have—but rather taxes used to finance the British empire, its standing armies, its militarist expansionism, its denial of due process rights to aliens that would be shipped to places outside the jursidiction of civil courts, and its wars in the name of national security. Any true movement against oppressive taxation must include opposition to the bloated warfare state and depradations on the liberties of the people, not just welfare spending—although that should be opposed too.