President Trump imposing taxes (tariffs) with the consent of ourselves or the Congress rebuilds a known path to war.
In 1767, the path to war was being built of No Taxation without Representation. By 1774 it was a shooting war.
- John Dickenson, Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer:“I take it to be an undeniable principle of English liberty that no man can be taxed but with his own consent, given personally, or by his representative.
If this principle is once given up, we are adrift.
For if they can tax us without the consent of our representatives, they may indeed take from us without our consent every penny that we have.
They may impose the most burthensome taxes; they may collect them in the most grievous manner; they may apply them in the most oppressive ways.
If they have a right to impose one tax upon us, they have a right to impose a thousand.
If they have a right to take one penny from us, they have a right to take all our money.”