Thomas Paine Tea Party Revolution Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"

The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, especially because they believed that it violated their constitutional right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives. The North ministry's solution was the Tea Act, which received the assent of King George on May 10, 1773.[26] This act restored the East India Company's full refund on the 25% duty for importing tea into Britain, and also permitted the company, for the first time, to export tea to the colonies on its own account. This would allow the company to reduce costs by eliminating the middlemen who bought the tea at wholesale auctions in London.

Instead of selling to middlemen, the company now appointed colonial merchants to receive the tea on consignment; the consignees would in turn sell the tea for a commission. In July 1773, tea consignees were selected in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Charleston.

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[bellasister]

What's w/ the flames. Looks like he is speaking from hell.

[wollam11]

"My country is the world, all men are my brethren and my religion is to do good."

[Protains]

if someone sends me a teabag i'm just gonna make and enjoy some delicious tea. i like earl grey!

[graceman25]

um, I agree with Mr pain on the farms... Did you listen to this video? hes telling the gov to keep jobs in america. and some other things as well. he keeps repeating they work for us, they are servants ect... um.... do you believe Thomas Paine only meant those ideas for farms plowed by animals 200 years ago?

[yellowkrux]

@XoriasLord Paine was a left-libertarian, not a socialist. He certainly wouldn't be a follower of the tea baggers, but he was not a socialist. He believed in the social contract, not in democratic control of the economy.Socialism=democratic control of economy & means of production, Left-libertarian= Capitalist, with the belief that natural resources are by right common property & compensation must be made for their use.

[XoriasLord]

ATTN Tea Party folks:

Thomas Paine was a Socialist, stop making Americans look like bigots and uneducated meatheads.

Thank you.

[ianw19]

"Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent...for the land which he holds; and it is from this ground-rent that [we should] create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property." - Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice.

[SamWiseGingy]

@repoman4353

This guy is a fraud. Read Thomas Paine Agrarian Justice and then tell me if Thomas Paine would be a conservative, Tea Partier, or a Glenn Beck fan.

[therealkidwired]

@libertyordeath4me- the key word is promote. It stands in stark difference from the word PROVIDE in the phrase that deals with the "common defence." There is a significant contradistinction in the two words. Promote means to support or encourage something. To provide is to supply somebody with something. Two different and distinct meanings.

[libertyordeath4me]

It is an issue of constitutionality. Our Constitution says, "promote the general welfare" this orders the government to do things that would benefit EVERYONE, and NOT to help any ONE PERSON or GROUP OF PERSONS AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL THE REST. What say You?????