Well the premise is actually wrong, it was not taxation with
representation because the small distilling farmers did not have
representation or their represenation was so diluated by a a majority
rule in the state Assembly and Congress that the representation was
nullified. Was this tax in the begining actually passed by Congress
and if so with the greater represenation at the time how did it
manage to pass? I heard that at one time House members could
fillibuster like Senate
members.
Antifederalist did think that even 1 representive for every
30,000 people was to weak but even if you have 1 for 10,000 if you
did not have the state legislator doing its job censoring their US
Senators and you have simple majority rule in Congress or just 60%
to break a fillibuster you are going to have under represenation, the
small distlling farmers could have good represenation in the state
legistor but majority rule in Congress weakens
that.
Didn't the great economiist Kurt Wicksell suggest that a tax
should never be implemented or increased unless there is at least a
80% approval of
representives?
Is it true that very few of the tax rebels were convicted
because most of the juries refused refused to do so? Now if some
tared and feathered tax collectors or burn buildings it is likely
some juries would not approve of that.--- In
[email protected], "goldrecordings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "hrearden_hr" <HRearden@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In 1791 Americans experienced taxation with representation in the
form
> > of a tax on distilled liquors. The tax was ill received by many
> > Americans in western PA and in particular farmers who lived there
who
> > were just about everyone who lived there. In 1794 the federal
> > government used military force to enforce the tax on the farmers
of
> > western PA. This situation has come to be known as the Whiskey
> > Rebellion. This was an example of an unpopular tax that was
imposed by
> > elected members of congress who were supposedly representatives
of the
> > PEOPLE. Thus it was taxation with representation.
> >
> > $
> >
>
>
> The Whiskey rebellion was much more widespread than just Western PA.
> I'm reading a (yet unpublished) book by a fiend of mine about it.
>
> -paul
> http://lastfreevoice.com
> http://kubby2008.com/
>
