It’s been 232 years since we got rid of King George; today we have President George. It seems like America has come full circle…
After two wars King George was in debt up to his eyeballs.
One major expense that drained the English treasury was the ‘management’ of the American colonies:
1. It was expensive to pay the many English troops shipped across the Atlantic to protect the colonies.
2. It was costly to pay the English governors assigned to oversee the colonies.
3. It was pricey to fight simultaneous wars against the French and the Indians in the colonies.
King George reasoned that if he was spending money to govern the colonies, then the colonists should pay for the services rendered on their behalf. George also knew that it would be much easier to convince Parliament to tax the colonists than to try to get more money from the already poor English citizens.
George received a shock and became incensed when the insolent American colonists objected to the new taxes being imposed upon them, particularly the Stamp Act.
The Stamp Tax required that colonists pay a special tax for every printed piece of paper they used – that included newspapers, playing cards, pamphlets, legal documents, advertisements, etc. The Stamp Act was passed by Parliament in 1765 — the colonists were furious.
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