he town center, which most people did not mind. The idiotic rebels have just discovered that Lord Grenville from the mother country of England has decided to force the colonists to pay for some of the 140,000,000? worth of debt that was incurred from the war that just passed. My Loyalist brethren and I think that it?s a fine and fair idea. Nevertheless since we think the idea is good, the revolutionaries must be somewhere screaming ?corruption? from the mountaintops. I must say the rebels are quite unnerving.What the mother country has recently begun to do is requiring all townspeople to pay taxes. Some people have been evading the indirect taxes but now all that will change due to the beginning of direct taxes such as sales tax on everything that is sold and property tax to be paid annually by anyone that owns land. Lately the anarchists have been saying things that are pure rubbish; taxation is not just about money, but is also about limitations on our liberties. Bah! Honestly, I must say I am quite sad for the old blokes. It appears as if they are now just fueled by thoughts of conspiracy and fiction. They also claim that the reason why England has left a miniature standing army here is to keep us in line. Really, now that?s just ridiculous. The idiocy just oozes from them.The revolutionaries have brought up many a point repeatedly regarding literal and virtual representation versus taxation. Aha, now all of their infernal rabble-rousing is making sense. To be perfectly honest, I really didn?t know what the difference was until Farmer Wilson from down the river explained it to me at market. Literal (or actual) representation means that we in the colonies have a person sent to England to attend meetings regularly and voice our concerns. Virtual representation involves women, children, and those people that do not own property to be represented by Parliament since we are all too far away to have actual representation. ...
