250 Years of Taxation in America

Podcast: The Sunday afternoon podcast with Greg Reese · Hosted by Greg Reese of the Reese Report

Opublikowano: 2026-06-22

The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first direct tax levied by Parliament on the colonies, which had no elected representatives in Parliament to approve or debate it. British Parliament later stated in the Declaratory Act that they had “full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America in all cases whatsoever.” According to the story, the American Revolution wasn’t about the size of the tax, it was about the right of Britain to impose taxes on the colonists without their consent. From 1868 to 1913, 90 percen...