Tax Chats
Taxes touch every aspect of society, including who rules, where factories are built, what people drink, what car they buy, when they have children, and when they die. Scott Dyreng (Duke) and Jeff Hoopes (UNC), two accounting professors, chat about taxes, including current events, with the energy of an over-caffeinated chihuahua. Listening is guaranteed to be far more entertaining than actually paying your taxes.
Tax Chats
Taxes and the American Revolution: A Chat with Benjamin Carp
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Historian Ben Carp talks with us about the role of taxes in the American revolution. Among many other things, we discuss whether taxes were the only grievance the colonists had against Britain, how heavily the colonies were taxed relative to the English in England, and, most importantly, how much of a party was the Boston tea party.
Ben is the author of several books, including, relevant to our discussion today,
"Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party & the Making of America"
and most recently, "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution"