also probably think that the Boston Tea Party was to protest being taxed. Actually the impetus was a tax break for a large multi-national corporation, The East India Trading Company. Britain gave EIT a break on Tea import taxes (basically eliminating them) to the colonies. Which would have made it impossible for colonial tea traders to compete. So it was, in its context, a protest against tax cuts for wealthy corporations, which the right is also very much for.

by The IDGE on 02/01/2010 01:13:00 PM EST