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and frightened starling. According to one reporter, the device was replaced by Mr. Reagan with an imitation snake, a creationist’s approach to driving off birds. Neither of these changes, in my opinion, could be sufficient to sustain a “Reagan Revolution.”
I looked to ideas for an explanation, reviewing slogans of the American Revolution. Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death,” did not seem applicable. Nor did Nathan Hale’s “My only regret <is that I have but one life to give for my country.”
Then I hit upon it.
The Reagan Revolution is an extension and new application of James Otis’s declaration “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” Actually, the taxation which Otis decried was not so heavy. But it was imposed by the King and his ministers. Taxation with representation was tolerated, with only minor protest, from the times of the Revolution until after the adoption of the Federal income tax. And even that tax was accepted with only minor protest until after World War II.
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