Individual Rights and the Boston Tea Party

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As thousands of Americans prepare for the Tea Party revolts on April 15 and July 4, it is important to remember that the Boston Tea Party was not a revolt against specific taxes, but against the abandonment of individual rights.

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[thbyrnes]

"... When you see that in order to produce, you need permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that our society is doomed."

-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 1957

[swanberger]

I like seeing new faces from ARI. Good video, Don Watkins! :) / Happy buyer of Axiomatic. ;)

[wineblue2]

The Boston Tea Party was over global multinational corporations receiving tax breaks e.g. East India Company while shifting the entire tax burden on the citizens and putting the small business owner out of business! Sound familiar? Checkout what Thomas Hartman has to say about it as he reads from a book that was printed during that period so you can hear what one person who was actually there had to say about it! Koch talking points will NOT work here!

[wineblue2]

LMAO! This guy has no clue what the true message of the Boston Tea Party intended to send! Look up Tom Hartman and hear what someone who was actually there had to say about it!

[zjones1222]

There were absolutely no cohersive acts against the people of the United States but selfish acts of people which still owe taxes to Great Britian. Those taxes do not go away and ownership of those grave sites in the Americas are property of Great Britian and burial expenses should have been paid to them in regards to the use of the land. A new tea party is void officially in not following the laws of the British Constitution so what aquits America today from making proper payment to them?

[dpsauve71]

CUT CUT CUT NO TAXES , ok you can pay for roads and church funded programs

by regulating you keep banks , big biz and wall street from steeeeling from us . if you remember the 80 s it was Ronny and GHB that deregulated them all ,

regulation of taxes so thay work for us is what they stop . the bible says to sow your seed that means pay to play , roads bridges and the poor are just a few its not just a church way of life it must be used in all thing s

or you may as well not do it at .

[mkmcclure]

Boston Tea Protest was not over taxes. Read your history book and go beyond 8th grade. It was about a monopoly granted the British Tea Company, a subsidiary of the British East India Company. Tax on tea actually went DOWN as part of favoritism to drive local merchants out of business. Tea Baggers never let real history get in the way of a good story---which is all there is here.

[mkmcclure]

@ftsmallwood Suggesion: Read A Shoemaker and the Tea Part about George Robert Twelve Hewes--the last suvivor of the events of December 1773 when he states the term "Tea Party" was applied by others decades later and unlike the douche in the video, the founding fathers did NOT use the term. Great to know history and even better to be honest about it, but that would interrupt the point of the Tea Baggers---why take a break for honesty?

[mkmcclure]

@ftsmallwood The comment is about the philosophy (or lack thereof) of the Tea Baggers. The Tea Baggers grab historical events and change/manipulate/appropriate history for their own purposes without any respect or relevancy to the event itself. The comment is that many people either do not know enough about the event to make a comment to see the irony. This shallow vision translates into modern issues like abortion. Thanks for illustrating my point small wood. [irony ends at this point].

[ftsmallwood]

@mkmcclure Oh, I got you now. If only I had gone to college, I would understand why the welfare state is needed. Jeez, I'm such an idiot. Guess I'll have to go to college to become a commie like you. Isn't the student load program a great idea? Tax the uneducated poor masses, so they can pay for smart people to get educated and call the uneducated people idiots. I never knew America was such a great country. It's awful funny how you changed the subject from Tea Party to abortion.

[ftsmallwood]

@Onlythefaceschange Regulations means favors for one side and penalties for the other side. Government regulations corrupt business and our country.  Your regulations are destroying our country. Seems you're for slavery by our politicians who will make us all into drones for your ideas.

[ftsmallwood]

@Tacotruck1166 I guess that means you're for Romneycare and against tax cuts. Research your commie GOP candidate, Romney who passed Universal Healthcare in Mass. and opposed tax cuts. You support commies and don't even know it!! Get smart, don't be a closet commie.