LOL at Miss Massachussets

[guitar man]

I was flipping through the channels and caught the beginning of the Miss America pageant. Each contestant was introducing herself with a little bit about her state and when they got to Miss Massachusetts, she said "from the home of the tea party when it was still about tea".

Snort!! :spray: :rofl:

[pinboy3niner]

1. LOL!

I hope they give bonus points for sense of humor! :rofl:

[aquart]

2. It was no taxation without representation, actually.

But now it's about no taxation with too damn much representation and zero common sense.

[elleng]

8. And DC residents still don't have it.

[Sal Minella]

11. Neither do all the great-grandchildren who will be taxed to pay

for the Cheney-Bush-Rumsfeld Oil Wars.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. Actually, it was about Corporate control

The East India Company via King George insisted that they be the only supplier to the Colonies, while reaping the rewards and letting the taxes fall to the masses.

pg 60 - Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann

Most Americans today believe that the colonists were only upset that they didn't have a legislature they had elected that would pass the laws under which they were taxed: "Taxation without representation" was their rallying cry. And while that was true, Hewes (George Robert Twelvetrees Hewes, a participant of the revolt) points out, the thorn in their side, the pinprick that was really driving their rage, was that England was passing tax laws solely for the benefit of the transnational East India Company at the expense of the average American worker and America's small business owners.
Thus, "taxation without representation" also meant hitting the average person and small business with taxes while letting the richest and most powerful corporation over all competitors, plain and simple.
And the more the colonists resisted the predations of the East India Company and its British protectors, the more reactive and repressive the British government became, arresting American entrepreneurs as smugglers and defending the trade of the East India Company.
Among the reasons cited in the 1776 Declaration of Independence for separating America from Britain are, "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our consent." The British had used tax and anti-smuggling laws to make it nearly impossible for American small business to compete against the huge multinational East India Company, and the Tea Act of 1773 was the final straw.



..and everything old is new again.

[struggle4progress]

15. I thought it was a campaign by coffee importers to promote their product

[Urban Prairie]

3. Haha..great sense of humor she has!! n/t

[Sal Minella]

10. ooops. delete.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. Miss Wyoming said something about touching 6 states but not inappropriately

[lpbk2713]

5. I doubt if "home of Dick Cheney" was high on her list.

:rofl:

[WinkyDink]

14. "Home of Dick Cheney when he was still a....." Never mind.......

[davidinalameda]

6. THAT should be on a t-shirt

:rofl:

[malaise]

7. Give her the crown

:rofl:

[aaaaaa5a]

9. Love it! NT

[Wheezy]

13. And I think Miss Utah said something like

"Glad to be at this pageant where 53 women gather and they're not all married to the same man." LMAO.