Yes, ... and No.. Yes, about the term limits. Lobbyists need to be outlawed all together.

As for Taxes, the Colonist paid a lot more then just for tea. Some of it was a 'fee' or a tariff but it amounted to taxation no matter what you called it. (during the time of the revolutionary war) ...

Susoni

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I'm a bit of a history buff.

The Navigation Acts (1651,1660 & 1663)

The Plantation Duty Act (1673)

The Sugar Act (1764)

The Stamp Act (1765)

The Townshend Acts (1767)

The Tea Act (1773)

I copy/pasted a list of the timeline. The 'Tea' tax was just the last straw..

1651 1651,1660 & 1663 The Navigation Acts. The colonies represented a lucrative source of wealth and trade - refer to Triangular Trade. The Navigation Acts were designed to regulate colonial trade and enable England to collect duties (taxes) in the Colonies. The Slave Plantations were established during this period

1661 The Tariff of 1661 imposed a series of duties on the importation of goods to Britain from foreign countries and colonies

1663 The Navigation Act of 1663, also called the Act for the Encouragement of Trade or the Staple Act, was passed in the English Parliament

1673 The Navigation Act of 1673 (aka the Plantation Duty Act) was enacted to the plantations to trade exclusively with England and to redirect revenue to England. The Plantation Duty Act placed a penny tax on each pound of tobacco, it required a five-shilling tax for every hundred weight of sugar and finally Tax Collectors were appointed in the colonies. There were numerous objections to the tax which contributed greatly to the Culpeper Rebellion of 1677.

1675 The Lords of Trade were appointed in England to enforce the new mercantile system and maximize potential profits for England

1675 1675-l676 Bacon's Rebellion Nathaniel Bacon rebelled against a corrupt Governor, low prices for tobacco and high taxes that were believed to be unjust

1677 Culpeper’s Rebellion: Rebellion against the Colonial Government in Carolina and the Navigation Acts led by John Culpeper. The rebellion succeeded in disposing the governor and placing Culpeper in his position. John Culpeper was removed in 1679

1689 February 1689 The Glorious Revolution. The Protestant William III and Mary II officially replace the Catholic James II as monarchs of England. The English Bill of Rights enables Parliament to control laws and taxes in the Colonies in America

1696 Salutary Neglect. Salutary neglect was an English policy used to avoid the strict enforcement of parliamentary laws in Colonial America. This gave the colonies considerable freedom in economic matters and was designed to keep the American colonies obedient to England. The English government established the Board of Trade to oversee colonial policies.

1699 Parliament passes the Wool Act, which prohibits the export of American made cloth from its colony of origin.

1732 Parliament passes the Hat Act, preventing the trade of American-made hats leading to the Beaver Wars

1732 Debt Recovery Act, which declared land and slaves to be the equivalent of property for the purpose of satisfying debts owed by colonists.

1733 Navigation Act of 1733, also known as the Molasses Act levied heavy taxes on sugar from the West Indies to the American colonies forcing colonists to purchase the more costly sugar from Britain

1750 The Iron Act was designed to restrict the manufacturing activities in the colonies

1763 The end of the French and Indian War (Seven years War) left the British with a massive war debt. George Grenville became the British Prime Minister and to pay the war debt the British, under the leadership of Grenville ended their policy of Salutary Neglect in the colonies. The British started to enforce the laws of the Navigations Acts and looked for ways of imposing new taxes in the colonies.

1764 Sugar Act - Law passed by the British Parliament setting a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies impacting the manufacture of rum in New England. The Sugar Act was repealed in 1766 and replaced with the Revenue Act of 1766, which reduced the tax on molasses imports - also refer to Colonial, Continental and Revolutionary Currency

1764 Currency Act - Series of Laws passed by the British Government that regulated paper money issued by the colonies

1765 The Quartering Act: The first of a series of Laws requiring the provision of housing, food and drink to British troops stationed in towns designed to improve the living conditions of troops whilst decreasing the cost to the crown

1765 The Stamp Act of 1765 placed a stamp duty (tax) on legal papers, newspapers and pamphlets. Vehement opposition by the Colonies, led by patriots such as Patrick Henry, resulted in the repeal of the act in 1766.

1765 The Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty was an an organization (a secret society) formed by American Patriots who opposed British measures against the colonists, and agitated for resistance

1765 The Nonimportation Agreements (1765–75). Associations were organized by Sons of Liberty and Whig merchants to boycott English goods In response to new taxes. American colonists were discouraged from purchasing of British imports.

1766 The Declaratory Act: Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied repeal of the Stamp Act stating that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to make laws binding on the American colonies

1767 Townshend Acts - Series of Laws passed by the British Parliament placing duties on items imported by the colonists including glass, lead, paints, paper and tea. The reaction from the colonists was so intense that Great Britain eventually repealed all the taxes except the one on tea. Acts included the the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act and the New York Restraining Act

1770 March 5, 1770: The Boston Massacre during which British troops killed 5 Boston civilians.

1773 Tea Act - Law passed by the British Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants. The introduction of the Tea Act led to the Boston Tea Party

1774 December 16: The Boston Tea Party - Massachusetts patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians protested against the British Tea Act

1774 Intolerable (Coercive) Acts: The Intolerable Acts also known as Coercive Acts were a were a reprisal to the Boston Tea party rebellion. A package of five laws aimed at restoring authority in its colonies

March 31, 1774: The Boston Port Act

May 20, 1774: The Massachusetts Government Act

May 20, 1774: The Administration of Justice Act

June 2, 1774: The Quartering Act

The American Revolution (1775- 1783) ended the Colonial America Time Period

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Re: Donald Trump On D.C.: ‘The Whole Place is ....

It is not within governments capability to be gradually shrunk. Governments can only grow until they consume everything. It is kind of like a monster. Governments can only be destroyed or collapsed to once again grow bigger and stronger than before. This country threw off Britain that was only collecting a 3 cent per pound tax on tea. That was the only tax on the colonies at the time of the revolution. Before the Constitution, the individual States instituted their own taxes on property and many soldiers returned home to find their homes and farms taken for not paying the taxes. George Washington later used the military to collect taxes on whiskey. That tax exempted Washington's distilleries from most of the tax burden. America exchanged one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants 1 mile away. If and when the current government collapses, the one to rise after will be much worse and rise even faster than the current one. The people (like the rioters in Portland will DEMAND it.

As for term limits, the people in government will have to steal at a much faster rate knowing they have a fixed amount of time to do it. Lobbyists will just be more covert in their attempts to influence the congress critters.

The people of this planet will not truly become civilized until they decide they do not need masters ruling over them

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