In December 1773, Bostonians held a Tea Party in Boston Harbor to protest excessive British taxes. "No taxation without representation" was their message. On Wednesday, April 15, Americans will hold rallies across the country to protest onerous taxes. Organizers have a motto for their Tea Day - "taxed enough already." Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Saunders cannot even get her history right for what the Boston Tea Party was. Her political views seem equally based upon false information and republican false propaganda points.
The Boston tea party protested tax cuts for the rich, when the crown cut taxes on the East India Tea Company so they could eliminate competition from the small tea traders in the colonies. Boston: protesting tax cuts for huge corporations and their privileged owners; Republicans: protesting imposing taxes upon the privileged owners of huge corporations. Astounding to trumpet such ignorance.
This is one of the more disjointed articles I've seen - it's barely journalism, let alone good journalism.
But yes, someone is going to have to pay for all this. Unfortunately it's probably not going to be the people who got us into the mess in the first place.
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