2023-07-05
The AIER notes some of the circumstances that led to George Washington taking up arms against the British.
As always, government overreach was behind it - pluck the goose too hard and it will ultimately turn on you. I guess this was before the government had worked out that they need to at least mount a pretence that they are on the side of the people whose finance they need in order to pursue their grand plans ... they just needed to learn the hard way - but learn they eventually did.
It's interesting because many of the monetary tricks that we see today were in play then too.
