Our forefathers' first objection to tea taxes was that Britain funneled the revenue back to colonial governors to keep them loyal.
The other was that the Tea Act of 1773 repealed taxes on the British East India Company, in which King George and many British Lords were major shareholders, while continuing to tax everyone else.
The original Tea Party was a protest against unchecked predatory corporate power and against government giving special advantage to the wealthy and powerful. In other words, what today's Republican party appears to stand for.
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