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Shannon Dooling? @sdooling 11m11 minutes ago
Spotted outside of Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage, Harvard Sq. in #CambMA ahead of today's so-called #BostonFreeSpeechRally.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)There is a tourist attraction where you can pay to throw tea in the water.
egold2604
(369 posts)Some things stay the same. The Crown mandated that all tea sold in the colonies bear a royal stamp. Most of the Boston based founding fathers were tea smugglers who bought their tea in Holland and smuggled it in. Turns out the Crown then set the price of the legal tea below what the smugglers purchased the tea for in Holland so the smugglers lost money on each load and would be driven out of business eventually.
The "patriotic" smugglers then riled up the masses about taxation without representation, etc, dressed up like native Americans and tossed a load of tea into the Boston Harbor. Neat huh?
vicman
(478 posts)or are you just happy to see me?
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)Thanks for the 4th grade history lesson, right?
Maraya1969
(22,509 posts)Have I actually been edjamacated or was that poster all wrong.
PS - love saying the word Edjamacate
edhopper
(33,651 posts)As Europeans developed a taste for tea in the 17th century, rival companies were formed to import the product from China.[3] In England, Parliament gave the East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea in 1698.[4] When tea became popular in the British colonies, Parliament sought to eliminate foreign competition by passing an act in 1721 that required colonists to import their tea only from Great Britain.[5] The East India Company did not export tea to the colonies; by law, the company was required to sell its tea wholesale at auctions in England. British firms bought this tea and exported it to the colonies, where they resold it to merchants in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston.[6]
Until 1767, the East India Company paid an ad valorem tax of about 25% on tea that it imported into Great Britain.[7] Parliament laid additional taxes on tea sold for consumption in Britain. These high taxes, combined with the fact that tea imported into the Dutch Republic was not taxed by the Dutch government, meant that Britons and British Americans could buy smuggled Dutch tea at much cheaper prices.[8] The biggest market for illicit tea was Englandby the 1760s the East India Company was losing £400,000 per year to smugglers in Great Britain[9]but Dutch tea was also smuggled into British America in significant quantities.[10]
In 1767, to help the East India Company compete with smuggled Dutch tea, Parliament passed the Indemnity Act, which lowered the tax on tea consumed in Great Britain, and gave the East India Company a refund of the 25% duty on tea that was re-exported to the colonies.[11] To help offset this loss of government revenue, Parliament also passed the Townshend Revenue Act of 1767, which levied new taxes, including one on tea, in the colonies.[12] Instead of solving the smuggling problem, however, the Townshend duties renewed a controversy about Parliament's right to tax the colonies.
It was about taxation without representation.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...
I love Boston!
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)ME! Boston and I thank you for the good thoughts.
yuiyoshida
(41,869 posts)Reminded alot of San Francisco
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)sandensea
(21,711 posts)That'll expose more of these cretins than years of FBI investigations could hope to uncover.
rickford66
(5,530 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)broadcaster90210
(333 posts)Except for Halloween etc of course.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)Are some mighty brass balls on display! Respect!
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Ilsa
(61,710 posts)I bet others will follow.
Give them the "lunchcounter" treatment that others endured.
33taw
(2,448 posts)gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)that's "way right and way wrong." Funny.
DFW
(54,477 posts)Sounds like two halves of a stale bun with nothing inside.
jmowreader
(50,580 posts)I don't think I'd want to eat at this place...their burgers, complete with editorial comments, are:
Mike Pence (way right and way wrong)
Tom Brady "Triumphant"
Caitlyn Jenner "You Go Girl"
Beyonce "Hot!"
Legalize It (now tax the hell out of it)
Viagra (rise to the occasion!)
Julian Edelman (he loved this) (he's a wide receiver for the Patriots)
Taxachu$ett$
Triple-D (his establishment was on Guy Fieri's show)
David Price (Red Sox pitcher) (
Car Talk "The Pride of Our Fair City"
John "Solly" Solomon (GREAT GUY!) (he owns a bar in the Bay Area)
Gay Marriage (they can't be worse at it)
MBTA (Most Broken Transit Authority)
Liz Warren ("Screeching Squaw"
Iphone (Siriously delicious...ask her)
Casey Affleck (Wicked good)
Trump Tower (It's Yuuge, believe me)
Cuba (no editorial comment, for some reason)
Kim Jong-Un (he's crazier than Trump)
Cambridge Kooks "LOL"
Mass Health (Unhealthy)
Bernie Sanders (Socially unacceptable)
Snoop Dogg (no comment, also not a "dogg"
Melania Trump (for president 2024) (apparently they don't teach the Constitution in MA public schools...)
Mrs. B (the queen of burgers)
How does a right-wing burger joint stay open next door to Harvard?
DFW
(54,477 posts)How does Harvard admit people like Cruz and W?
I guess that's the kind of people they are looking for these days. One of my grandfathers went there over 100 years ago. The son of an impoverished tailor from South Carolina, he worked his way through Harvard as a janitor. Obviously, they aren't looking for people like that any more.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)DFW
(54,477 posts)"Son, I promise you, you don't want to hear the answer to that."
stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)And some of these Yahoo Nazis just might be looking for some fine legal representation
tymorial
(3,433 posts)I used to listen to car talk all the time.
Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)And once in a blue moon, I hear a new puzzler.
I understand Tappet Brothers LLC gave up their Harvard Square lease after they stopped doing live shows, but the famous window will live on in perpetuity (under penalty of death, or some Boilerplate in the lease contract, the new tenants will leave the gilded letters unmolested).
paleotn
(17,997 posts)....for a distance of many miles. The old Roman punishment of banishment.
Blue Idaho
(5,065 posts)Remember an army marches on its stomach.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Ostracism helped to diffuse threats to thier evolving democracy .
They are free to speak and assemble there which is more than other hideous groups may be allowed to do, but the Nazis can't make people like them or help them
Imagine a pro ISIS rally, but some things must be shunned and rejected
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,318 posts)TNNurse
(6,931 posts)But I wonder if they buy Hebrew National...that is what we eat???
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,065 posts)Then there is no claim of discrimination.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Privately owned businesses can refuse to serve people for almost any reason.
Through civil rights legislation, people cannot be refused service specifically on the basis of their race, national origin, gender, age, disability, (in some places) sexual orientation and a few other things.
But otherwise, I can kick anyone out of my business that I want to. If someone comes in with a swastika tattoo or a white power t-shirt, I can happily and proudly tell them to get the fuck out - they aren't welcome here and I have no obligation to serve them.
Unless Trump signed some executive order that I missed, nazis, fascists and other racists aren't a protected class.
Blue Idaho
(5,065 posts)I like your answer better!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Blue Owl
(50,547 posts)The official Nazi lunch
DinahMoeHum
(21,825 posts). . .'cause chances are, they won't be sleeping in a comfy bed tonight (hint hint)
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)JDC
(10,144 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)wurst and kraut with white bread or puppies and kittens.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)get me suspended from DU. Thanks for doing it!