• AbsentBird@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    It’s complicated. They removed all taxation that would have benefitted the the colonies, but kept the Townshend Act taxes in place.

    The colonies had been evading the Townshend taxes, largely because they were understood to be punitive. That’s the primary reason tea had been smuggled from The Netherlands, as resistance to what was viewed as unjust taxation.