The Stamp Act - 1765

The Stamp Act - 1765
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The Stamp Act - 1765
Introduction
Money in the ancient days proved a major hitch to the British government. The government set up policies that would foresee effective control and collection of money so as to fund its ventures in the American colonies. The British parliament enacted the stamp paper to enhance its strategy. Owing the alluded rationale above, this literature will pinpoint the effects, the relevance, the results and suggestions of the stamp paper act in 1765 (Boyer, p. 100).
Discussion
The stamp paper act enactment was a strategy initiated to aid the British government to maximize returns from its American colonies. The money gained from the colonies was used to cater for the salaries of the soldiers situated in North America. Moreover, the British government felt that each colony benefited mutually from the money. Thus, it was logic for colonies to pay tax as soldiers’ ensured peace was maintained internally and externally. The policy main locale was in collection of tax as the policy pinpointed massive ways that foresaw effective collection of taxes from the citizens. The paper’s policy demanded that land owners, exporters, manufactures, students and professionals among others pay tax. For instance, the year 1764 the sugar act that originated from the year 1733 molasses act that aimed to monopolize the market.
However, the sugar act received antagonism from liberal minded scholars who thought the viewed the act as rather exploitative. The oppositions’ motive was to come up with a rationale policy that preferential both the British government and the American colonies. Therefore, Samuel Adams a British citizen objected the act by questioning equity whereby he suggested that the general public regardless of an individual’s citizenship to pay taxes equally. Adams responded against forfeit of rights of non British citizens. Consequently, a five member committee of correspondence from Massachusetts joined the wagon to oppose the act. The committees’ main concern was in the Sugar Act. Here, they channeled for strikes to so as to oppose the act. The committee argued that they did not have the capacity to be subjected to paying tax. Vis-à-vis the committee perceived th...