Andrew Walworth: What the Rolling Stones can teach us about today's tax debate

With Joe Biden in the White House, we’re about to embark on another national experiment to see how Americans react to tax increases.

Tax rebellions take many forms. The American Revolution was a violent reaction to changes in the British Navigations Acts, as colonialists felt their rights as British citizens violated by the Parliament and the Crown. The Whiskey Rebellion was triggered in 1791 when the new federal government unwisely decided to tax some Americans -- frontier farmers who distilled whiskey – and not others. For decades before the Civil War, southerners bitterly complained about tax policies on imports that favored northern manufacturers over southern planters. While the Civil War was fought over slavery, a nasty debate over tariffs contributed to the sectional division that preceded Southern secession.