One line of argument in Parliament was that Americans should pay a share of the costs of the French and Indian War and therefore taxes should be levied on them. Franklin became the American spokesman in highly publicized testimony in Parliament in 1766. He stated that Americans already contributed heavily to the defense of the Empire. He said local governments had raised, outfitted and paid 25,000 soldiers to fight France—as many as Great Britain itself sent—and spent many millions from American treasuries doing so in the French and Indian War alone
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Financial costs from the British Empire and the wars that it spawned have never been a deterrent to domination, control and war. Ordinary people like you and I, Don doing the bidding of the authorities end up killing and being killed. This is not good enough! Hence, my non-violent resistance to unnecessary wars in particular but, of course for all wars as they simply lead to revenge wars! The 1WW led to the rise of Nazism and Hitler, by a longstanding, traditional Christian country, too. War historian, Gary Sheffield seems to say so here, quoting his book, ‘A Short History of the First World War’:-
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