I am glad you brought up that point...it is strange that, of all examples he could have used, decided upon Britain, especially in light of the holiday.

Why would he use Britain as the shining example regarding taxes? The fact that we not only had a serious disagreement regarding taxation without representation and fought Britain to gain our independence.

Why choose Britain?

What this an attempt to pre-program 'the people' in a very passive way to dissuade the real possibility of a revolt against the current administration? I cant think of any other 'good' reason that our president would make such an outrageous statement like this, and not that there aren't plenty of other statements to choose from , but Independence Day?

I know it sounds far fetched, and I sincerely apologize for being redundant, but I have really tried to make sense of his statement.

It just seems that he is doing his best to inoculate himself/the administration as though he knows a backlash is coming and is desperate to quell it at any chance he gets.

I sincerely look forward to your thoughts on the matter.