Quote from: rico666 on October 22, 2016, 01:45:14 PM

Quote from: BurtW on October 14, 2016, 10:19:41 PM

Purely hypothetical scenario that would never happen to someone like you or me:
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Sounds a little bit worse than communist Czech Republic of the 70ies, where my parents had the decency to flee from - together with their child. Of course the Czech Republic had also better medical care in the 70ies than Colorado has today, but that's just as an aside.

Rico

Murricans teach their children about how oppressive the British soldiers were during the fight for independence in 1770's. Taxation without representation was a rallying cry for the starving colonists.

The murrica of today is ten times more oppressive to its people than the brits were in the 1770's and unauthorized/unwelcome taxes are commonplace.

Example one:

Then:

The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, happened on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.

Now:

The Kent State massacre occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

Example two:

Then:

No Taxation Without Representation" is a slogan originating during the 1750s and 1760s that summarized a primary grievance of the American colonists in the Thirteen Colonies, which was one of the major causes of the American Revolution. In short, many in those colonies believed that, as they were not directly represented in the distant British Parliament, any laws it passed affecting the colonists (such as the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act) were illegal under the Bill of Rights 1689, and were a denial of their rights as Englishmen.

Now:

In 2014, Burton Wagner was arrested without any crime being committed. His house ransacked and family torn apart in fear while he was dragged off to jail while government militia members stole all his money. They refused to release him from prison without his agreement that they could keep a large block of his money. That sounds a hell of a lot like government taxation without representation to me.