My ex wife is a 7th grade history teacher. The way she described the stamp act was "Imagine that the federal government said that you had to pay $0.15 every time you logged onto a wi-fi. Even if it was your home wi-fi." The class was completely silent with shock and she heard one of her students whisper "I'd murder someone."

@spacejammer1991

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 that kid is a true American

@RaderizDorret

7 ай бұрын

More like 15 cents per link you click.

@alexs5744

4 ай бұрын

Or .15 per toilet paper used or sin tax on soda, alcohol etc.

@michellekinder3051

3 ай бұрын

Or one dollar per soda ​@@alexs5744

Now I’m not saying Clint Eastwood is descended from this man. But considering how extensive his family line was in 1775, and how much he is the Clint Eastwood of the Revolution, in my head canon, he is.

@jehoiakimelidoronila5450

6 ай бұрын

You may be right now if we think about it

"96 years old, that impressive for that time period" My brother in Christ, that is impressive in this CURRENT time period lmao dude looked at death for 96 years and just said, "nah" haha

@lotuswraith

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this comment. 😂 I'm still laughing.

@legionx4046

7 ай бұрын

EXACTLY 🤣

@CreatureOutOfTime

4 ай бұрын

My uncle is "96 years old and possibly immortal" He would still be cutting his grass and play with his lawnmower if it wasnt for his bad knees and being basically blind. He survived crashing his old Ranger doing 40 mph 5 years ago and it didnt affect his overall condition

If the British had just tasted Sam Adams Lager, they would've left. The thought would've been, "The Colonies drink this... on purpose? We may as well go home. We have no way to torture them."

@Kez_DXX

7 ай бұрын

Not for lack of trying, mind you. More colonial soldiers died on those damn prison ship hulks than in battle.

@alexs5744

4 ай бұрын

I don’t think Sam Adams is bad, it’s a step up from Budweiser.

11:20 it's even worse when you consider that back then, Tea was one of the only reliable sources of safe drinking water (outside of alcohol), so this was essentially a Drinking Water Tax

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

That's wild to consider.

@lotuswraith

7 ай бұрын

That's amazing context; that never dawned kn me before.

@UrbanCohort

7 ай бұрын

Nestle?!! Is that you?

@voraciousblackstn

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, except that by that time hot chocolate had replaced tea as the most consumed beverage in the colonies. Tea was second and coffee was a distant third. Remember that coffee and chocolate are NATIVE to the Americas, so less shipping expense and easier to grow. And it is not hot chocolate like you think of it today. Closest you can get is Auntie Abulita's or whatever it is in the mexican food section. It comes in bricks.

@RaderizDorret

7 ай бұрын

@@KipReacts It's even worse than that. The tax in that image is 5 pence per pound of tea. At the time, a School Master's annual salary was 20 pounds per year which comes out to 4800 pence (240 pence per pound). Now you can get about 453 cups out of a pound of tea, but that's on top of the Stamp Act. The rates on the Stamp Act of 1765 were insane. Quote... "The highest tax, £10, was placed ... on attorney licenses. Other papers relating to court proceedings were taxed in amounts varying from 3d. to 10s. Land grants under a hundred acres were taxed 1s. 6d., between 100 and 200 acres 2s., and from 200 to 320 acres 2s. 6d., with an additional 2s 6d. for every additional 320 acres (1.3 km2). Cards were taxed a shilling a pack, dice ten shillings, and newspapers and pamphlets at the rate of a penny for a single sheet and a shilling for every sheet in pamphlets or papers totaling more than one sheet and fewer than six sheets in octavo, fewer than twelve in quarto, or fewer than twenty in folio (in other words, the tax on pamphlets grew in proportion to their size but ceased altogether if they became large enough to qualify as a book)." Note: there were 20 shillings in a pound which comes out to 12 pence per shilling. And on top of all of this, the taxes were "hard currency only" which meant you either had the silver or gold to pay it, or you were screwed. Paper currency was not acceptable for payment of taxes per Parliament. Edit: back then, the Pound Sterling was literally that: a full on pound of sterling silver. And the exchange rate of silver to gold was 15 units of silver to 1 unit of gold at the time, more or less. The taxes were not just to pay for the War but also to crush any professional class emerging in the Colonies that could challenge the Crown.

Kip... Sam Adams was a brewer before a revelutionary. So yes as in the beer, same guy. Side note, even Germans like Sam Adams beer. One of the only beers they import on the regular market.

@moose4377

5 ай бұрын

it is one of the only U.S. beers that pass the beer purity laws

@alexs5744

4 ай бұрын

I love Sam Adams, it is one of the few big brands I like.

"the previously owner died suddenly, he came down with a terrible case of Whittemore"

Revolutionaries were just built different

I mean… he did A LOT of plowing. Bro had that stamina

@KnabeRussenschar4859

7 ай бұрын

The man was built for plowing, anything. His field, his wife, AND his enemies.

@kenj0165

7 ай бұрын

His enemies wife​@donovanmunford2791

@KnabeRussenschar4859

7 ай бұрын

@@kenj0165 them too

@backtoback6213

5 ай бұрын

Bro had that Dawg in him 😎🤌

@kenj0165

5 ай бұрын

@@backtoback6213 And in her

Man's first words were "I ain't done!" 😂

Kip you should get an avatar that is wearing Fat Electrician merch when you reacts to his videos 😂

@matthewhawthorne8411

7 ай бұрын

@@Mechkami44why not both?

A miniseries about this man starring Clint Eastwood and his son would be metal as hell! The son could play the younger Samuel Whittemore and Clint could play the final stage when he faces down 700 Redcoats!

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

That would be so cool!

What we didn't see was fight he had with the grim reaper while he laid in his bed. He told the hooded neanderthal "I die when I decide to die. You can wait until then."

@brothersgt.grauwolff6716

7 ай бұрын

Death can have Me when it Earns Me!

Sam Whittemore is the type of guy who Death has to surprise in their sleep to take them, because they’ll fight him otherwise and win!

@DontCallMeYourSlime

6 ай бұрын

Death just waited until Sam said “Get off your ass, I’m ready.”

He actually would have said, "the regulars are coming" reminder everyone here is British at this point.

@GhostBear3067

7 ай бұрын

That or "the King's Men"

@goldenhate6649

7 ай бұрын

Well minus the major bit of historical revisionism that has taken place to make that leap of imagination happen because some history channel historian said that one time 10 years ago...many colonials did NOT see themselves as british. That's like saying the confederates saw themselves as yanks.

Just started. I'm setting the over/under for the number of times he says "absolute legend" or "built different" at 36.

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

It's become so integrated in my vocabulary at this point.

Oh they do have a modern tea act, it's called the sugar tax. It taxes extra on any drink that has sugar in it.

Some historical data: England asked its colonies to pay only a fraction of the taxes that it was charging its citizens back home in Britain ( 1-1.5% vs 5-7% according to Google) and we said "No Taxation without representation" which was half true, there was colonial representation. They could address parliament but they had no voting rights so it might as well not have any at all.

@FluffehStuff274

7 ай бұрын

True, but it also encompasses that the East India Trading company got a legal monopoly to enact those taxes. So it wasn't just the government but a corporation given government powers as well.

@cerberus144

7 ай бұрын

@@FluffehStuff274 Exactly. We weren't even collecting our own taxes. There weren't colonial Tax collectors employed by and collecting on behalf of the crown

@grantharriman284

7 ай бұрын

Like how DC and Puerto Rica are now.

@spartanonxy

7 ай бұрын

@@grantharriman284 So with DC that is just wrong as the city has in effect all of congress as representatives due to the sheer amount of time spent in the city it is the difference between de facto and de jure. As lets face it many of the congress critters are more citizens of DC then of their home states. For PR that is somewhat correct though it is connected to how weird the case of PR's statehood is. Explaining the clusterF$#! that is PR statehood would take a week as it involves laws on both sides, corruption and cultural issues.

@grantharriman284

7 ай бұрын

@@spartanonxy So, Congress reflects DC? That's a straight up LIE. DC skews MASSIVELY Democratic. Congress isn't anywhere close to reflecting that, and the Republicans know it. They will never let it become a state because it would add 1 democrat to the house and 2 to the senate consistently. Puerto Rico is almost as skewed in the same direction.

soda taxes are levied locally in Boulder, Colorado; the District of Columbia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Seattle, Washington; and four California cities: Albany, Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco.

@csmyth118

29 күн бұрын

This is true

11:12 we have various beverage taxes all over the place. Sugary beverages and alcohol are the usual targets, not tea, but this is very much still a thing. They just usually sell those taxes by using the money to fund projects with some relation to them.

When I saw his T-shirt and I can literally hear the theme song of G.I Joe as you say the words!! Thank you Fat Electrician and Kip for the video!!

Here in West Virginia we have the town of Hundred, named after one of it's residents Henry Church, who lived to be 109 and whose nickname was Old Hundred. Church was a former British Soldier in the Revolutionary War, who after the war, decided to stay in America, get married and start a farm. He was active almost his entire life and was still plowing his fields in his 90s and 100s.

This man really took "Go forth and Multiply" seriously eh?

@korimiller379

7 ай бұрын

As well as "And every decade or so, also do some Subtraction."

Man found the fountain of vitality somewhere along the line for sure

11:40 Living in country with sugar tax, and it's already a thing it hits home

22:34 guess the old man still had plowing to do, lol

11:30 can you imagine if they did this today? *Me looks directly at soda and CRV tax* can't fucking imagine how that was, nope not at all (sarcasm)

@deaj8450

7 ай бұрын

I know, I was confused. Plus we literally have sales tax, just a tax for the privilege of being allowed to buy things. Everything you can possibly buy in a retail environment has a tax.

"360 no woof." I love it

@KipReacts

6 ай бұрын

I loved it so much.

It's surprising how amazing a drug raw spite is for longevity.

I like the idea of "Imagine if the powers at be taxed energy drinks," Meanwhile, they tax all our income. We are so far past having our tea taxed, and most people don't even realize it or honestly just don't care.

This man was already old as fuck when he was mortally wounded at the beginning of the war and still lived long enough to see the Constitution and also the Bill of Rights ratified.

One thing about the Dragoons: they are mounted troops, but they are not cavalry. They rode horses to the battlefield but then dismounted to fight. They're the 17th Century equivalent to Mechanized Infantry, more or less.

Fun fact: In Baltimore MD stores are no longer allowed to use plastic bags, only paper, and they have to charge between $0.05 - $0.15. per bag

@jlgavitt

15 күн бұрын

Myself and several friends were on vacation in NY last year, and forgot they have a bag tax. PA doesn't, although some stores might voluntarily charge one. We walked out of that Tops with cans stuffed in our pockets, boxes under each arm, bags clamped in our teeth..anything to avoid buying a bag, bc between the 4 of us we had approximately 700 bags at home, and hell no we weren't PAYING for another.

The gentleman was running for the Colony of Massachusetts House of Representatives. The Colony governed themselves up until their Charter was revoked (Which directly lead to the Continental Congress as other colonies feared they would be next).

Redcoat: "Why is there boss music?"

The great switch never happened. The racists in the south didn't switch parties they simply aged out of life. The timeline suggested for the great switch not only is off but there is a lack of politicians switching party that would match the theory.

To be fair, the parties didn't switch, nor their values. The only thing that switched was their views on how big the federal government should be.

You forget Kip what you said at the 11:30 is an actual thing California has a sugar tax on and drink that has sugar like soda, Gatorade, energy drinks, etc.

I don't have the slightest idea what Kip is saying about KZread running ads... Using the FREE Brave browser I don't have a SINGLE ad ANYWHERE... Even on my phone...

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

Gottem.

@ryanblanch2764

7 ай бұрын

@@KipReacts😂

I was going to get a Kipulation on how much that inflation actually is, but it's hard to find a reliable calculator for that far back. Nearest I can tell, if you're using British pounds, then 1000 would be roughly 212000 today. But if it's USD, then $1000 in 1765 is about $43000. Couldn't find a calculator for starting with British pounds in 1765 and ending in USD 2023. As for the extra tax on energy drinks, all I can think of is that dude with the can of Twisted Tea, except it's a couple million guys named Kyle with a can of Monster in their hands, and they're marching on Congress. Why, yes, I do have a vivid imagination, thanks for asking! :) Also also, as to how he managed to keep living, presumably it was one of two things (or a combination of them): he wasn't done plowing things, and/or he was too angry to die. That's all I can think of.

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

This is why I always bring up that people mentioning money in the past is much more than today's dollar values. It's wild to consider how much the dollar has inflated in such a short time.

@voraciousblackstn

7 ай бұрын

@@KipReacts Kip, I used to buy G.I. Joes in 1987 for $2.99. They are now $19.99. That is my inflation gauge, since it isn't a durable good nor a necessity. A snickers bar was $0.49 and a coke from the machine was $0.50 a can. Snickers is what $2.49 and a can is $1.50?

Oh man it would be named something like the BajaBlast Revolution

Love this story

Redcoats: 0 Old Man Whitmore: 3

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

Dude was just built different.

Its not stealing if the previous owner is no longer in the picture... then its looting

11:57 you kinda do if you are lactose intolerant and want to get coffee with a dairy alternative. Some places charge a additional 75 cents or sometimes more depending on the store just for oat milk instead of the regular milk. Basically a fee for a medical condition totally legal

5:30 not nick as a Benelli M4 clone and ear pro next to his bedside for home defense according to him on an unsubscribe podcast episode edit rewatched the unsubscribe podcast episode 93 it was berretta 1301 the 30 minute mark or so

Not to start anything, but, his rant about an extra tax on energy drinks ignores that some places already have an extra tax on soda.

(23:17) Nope Kip, You're way off.😄

They started a whole new country over a 2% tax. Meanwhile, I’m going to go cry some more over the 30% I just paid to Uncle Sam on the 1st.

That old man had no fucks to give. He'd already given them to his wife.

$1,000 in 1738 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $75,041.71

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

Yikes...

Dude too angry to die lmao

"Can you imagine the extra tax place on "... Don't have to, I'm a smoker and they've been doing that with tobacco for years. Also a gun owner, and there are stamp tax involved with NFA items too (SBR, suppressors, etc).

I actually heard a college student say about Sam Adams, the guy on a beer can.😮

@KipReacts

3 ай бұрын

Oh no...

Naw imagine them taxin southern tea. Aww hell naw I got heated just thinkin bout it xD

There was another way to become an officer. That being you raised your own regiment out of your own pocket and offered it's services to the crown.

@voraciousblackstn

7 ай бұрын

AKA rich guy again. But yeah, the fourth way was to be a militia leader which means the guys you are leading actually like you as a leader. Which I could see him being this one also. Militia leadership was determined before fighting and by the militia members themselves.

Many, many, many younger KZread reactors have never heard of Queen, Guns & Roses, Aerosmith Bon Jovi, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen, Journey, Chicago, or of course anyone in the 60s/70s classic rock era ... If they don't know any of these guys, there's no way they're gonna know who samuel adams is. I'd be willing to bet most couldn't name more historical figures beyond Washington and Lincoln which is sad.

Actually they are doing that. Seattle has a sugary drink tax. Any drink with sugar syrup etc. You have to pay a tax on.

The tax on soda and water in California is a real thing

7:22 the first two, iirc, were Federalists and Democratic-Republicans

When I went to Boston I heard a joke. Have a cold Sam Adams with a cold Sam Adams.

I feel like Kip hasn't noticed that "Strategically Transfers Equipment to an Alternate Location" can be abbreviated as STEAL. :P I also feel like Kip hasn't ever heard of a "soda tax". Seattle taxes 1.75 cents per ounce for sugary drinks. >_>

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

Oh I have, I love S.T.E.A.L. It's perfect, I just use the longform. I haven't actually heard of it until the comments section of this video, that's wild.

12:37 this rant aged *veeeerry* well #SpankTheBaby #KickTheBaby

Kinda irrelevant, but Kip, you need to watch the Teh Lurd of teh Reings edits if you haven't seen them; maybe even do a reaction. Just punch it in the search bar and start clicking, you can't go wrong.

185 kids my god

Ive never clicked on a vid so fast once i saw it

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

I hope it lived up to your expectations!

Congress is the House of Reps. Speaker of the House The order of succession specifies that the office passes to the vice president; if the vice presidency is simultaneously vacant, the powers and duties of the presidency pass to the speaker of the House of Representatives, president pro tempore of the Senate, and then Cabinet secretaries, depending on eligibility

You have a voice that sounds remarkably like Ryan Hamilton

The income tax has been ruled unconstitutional multiple times... yet it still exists.

@carbonwolf3865

2 ай бұрын

Can a man get some citations, please? I would like to look into this more

Bro now they have skippable ads after five seconds that bring you to another ad the fuck

It's ether that or there favorite nickname from up the cost massholes

“Can you imagine having to pay a tax on every energy drink you bought” Sales tax: how about…. Everything you buy :D

Don’t need to imagine the taxing of items, the government already taxes us for everything we buy. Gonna start charging us for breathing next.

Wait until this man finds out about sins tax….. monster is already taxed

11:10 Actually, the Federal Government passed a soda tax around 2014… 🙃

To be fair, the correlation between Sam Adams and Sam Adams the lager might be the same thing. I don't know that. I would have do more than 15 (which is roughly a tiktok video) seconds of research to determine the difference. And I feel like most people are too lazy to do that, so they feel they are the one and the same. I personally am not that way, because I was born in 1990. So I awkwardly bridge the generations. Millemials have it the hardest or at the very least, the most awkward.

Was that Mark Hamil @18:15?

@carbonwolf3865

2 ай бұрын

It looks like Mark Hamil

History note Americans started a revolution with the strongest military at the time. Over a 2% tax. While today's tax rate is 32%. Maybe history repeating wouldn't be such a bad thing

hey @kip I don't know if anybody's ever asked you to do one of these but maybe you could react to GI Joe real American hero if you're a fan of military the animation that might be something you'd want to react to

There is something called a "vice tax"

I can't wait, until you find out about the sugar taxes 😢😢😂😂😂

Pretty sure there is already a tax on drinks called sales tax. Could be wrong.

If you had to pay a tax on a sports drink? You mean a Sales Tax?

919 like

11:10 just wait till you learn about value added tax and gas tax

There are about 97 or so different taxes on us tax code today.... that's all I will say.

The House of Representatives in this would be the equivalent of the Massachusetts state government legislature, but set up under the British colonial rule rather than as an independent state. Less power, same general job.

7:15 each state had either a mono or bicameral legislature. The house of representatives was the governing body of Massachusetts. The original parties were the federalists and the democratic republicans, the federalists died and became the whigs, then died and became the republicans after the democratic republicans re branded as the democrats. The modern us political parties have been with us since the 1850s. As for ideology, anyone who says they did or did not swap is oversimplifying to sell you on one of them or denigrate the other. Both have had complicated and varied histories, and neither of those histories represents either party today.

U mean like the sugar tax in California???

Sugar tax. They are trying for it.

The republicans and democrats never "swapped". It was only 2 people that changed sides.

@firstnext5482

7 ай бұрын

Well we had the Democratic-Republican Party and the Federalists at the start. The Democratic-Republican Party eventually split, the Federalists gave way to the Whigs, and that's what I recall remember from my history class 20 years ago. So yeah, there was never a swap per-se.

@Summit900

7 ай бұрын

@@firstnext5482 Not what I'm referring to.

@firstnext5482

7 ай бұрын

@@Summit900 ... that what he was talkin' 'bout in the video unless I misremember so help me out here coach.

@Summit900

7 ай бұрын

@@firstnext5482 The swap widely is known about how the Republicans and Democrats somehow magically completely swapped platforms at some time in the 1900's. While kip may be talking about something else, that is what I understood him to be referring to.

@firstnext5482

7 ай бұрын

@@Summit900 Memory tells me that Democrats now and democrats back then would be opposed, as would Republicans, and would have more in common with the other side. I dunno if that necessarily means "swapped spots" but that is something I remember vaguely from school so maybe that.

nope the they D R never switched

Fun fact: yoinking things off of corpses is a war crime. Counts a desecration

@KipReacts

7 ай бұрын

This makes sense. From my understanding this was still a big thing in WWII.

@carbonwolf3865

7 ай бұрын

@@KipReacts it was. Obviously there are some situations where someone would need to take things off of a corpse, like needing ammunition or food, but doing anything other than what was necessary for survival is considered a big no-no.

@FellsApprentice

7 ай бұрын

Only recently

@carbonwolf3865

7 ай бұрын

@@FellsApprentice yes, due to the Geneva suggestions

The Republicans and Democrats never swapped. That's just something the democrats say to not look so bad.

What is kinda funny was even with the tax, tea from Britain was still cheaper than the smuggled tea. The main reasons people were upset was once again" taxation without representation ", corruption with the tea licences(mostly cronies and family members of the royal governor got the tea licences), and the smugglers were rich men like John Hancock who used their money to court favor with the regular citizens.

dang I wasn't first anymore in commenting! XD