John Hammond: Why your city tax rate is so high — and what you can do about it

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John Hammond: Why your city tax rate is so high — and what you can do about it

In October 1774, Annapolis shipping merchant Anthony Stewart’s brigantine Peggy Stewart arrived in the Annapolis harbor with a cargo of tea, and he paid the tax due under the Tea Act, as he planned to sell it for a tidy profit. The citizens of Annapolis protested the tax policy by boycotting the importation of tea and an angry mob of colonists, enforcing the boycott, insisted Stewart burn his ship … or he’d be tarred and feathered. Given the alt…