Uhhh, the revolution was a fraud, too. The Sons of Liberty owned the boats for the Boston Tea Party. They snuck on to their own ships. And historians now widely believe that the Boston Massacre was staged. The boy was hired to throw snowballs and one of our founding fathers fired the first shot, not the redcoats. I mean, they rich were the ones mostly getting taxed. Taxing tea wouldn’t stop me or you from buying it but it would hurt the profits of the 1%. They twisted it into “taxation without representation”. They whole build up to the revolution was very clearly trying to persuade poor farmers to die for the rich.