BY NIALL McCRAE & SLOBODAN ANTONIJEVIC High taxes levied to fund war, leading to hundreds of thousands of dead conscripts and a shattered economy: since the birth of nations, this pattern has repeated. Sometimes the ordinary people resist, through individual or collective tax avoidance. In the eighteenth century, as the British government waged costly wars with America and France, ruinous duties on imports and exports … Continue reading Did Sussex Smugglers Inspire the US Constitution?