Our Own Boston Tea Party
When the British Crown raised taxes on the American colonists’ consumption of imported tea, the colonists revolted. Lead by such patriots as Samuel Adams, the American colonists asserted their independence from a distant government with no responsiveness to the local wellbeing. In 1973, in the wake of rampant state spending and increasing tax burdens on the middle class, the voters of California staged a tax revolt, passing Proposition 13, which requires voter approval of tax increases. The Boston Tea Party and Prop. 13 here in California came to be symbols of the concept that taxation without representation is wrong.
Similarly, the state GOP is now at a turning point. Susan Kennedy, aliberal activist Democrat, has been announced as the governor’s chief of staff. Yet the state Republican Party leadership has been notably silent in its criticism of the selection. Much like the British… Read More