Dear Everyone.
I realize I'm a day late here, but that's okay. I'm trying to save you from making the same mistake next year.
"Tea parties" as a protest against taxes are a bad idea intellectually. You see, the Boston Tea Party was a protest against two things:
1) The lowering of taxes on the East India Company in order to allow them to be able to compete with smugglers of Dutch tea, combined with the raising of taxes on tea in the colonies (which counteracted the tax revenue lost in Britain proper, but because of the lowering of tea prices being passed on to the colonists as a result of the tax cut, was essentially a wash for the colonists; the price of their tea, all told, remained basically the same).
2) Taxation without representation. So unless you live in DC, or Guam, or American Samoa, or something... yeah.
The Boston Tea Party is the wrong icon to be rallying around on this one. Try using the Whiskey Rebellion instead.
"Tea parties" as a protest against taxes are a bad idea intellectually. You see, the Boston Tea Party was a protest against two things:
1) The lowering of taxes on the East India Company in order to allow them to be able to compete with smugglers of Dutch tea, combined with the raising of taxes on tea in the colonies (which counteracted the tax revenue lost in Britain proper, but because of the lowering of tea prices being passed on to the colonists as a result of the tax cut, was essentially a wash for the colonists; the price of their tea, all told, remained basically the same).
2) Taxation without representation. So unless you live in DC, or Guam, or American Samoa, or something... yeah.
The Boston Tea Party is the wrong icon to be rallying around on this one. Try using the Whiskey Rebellion instead.