American Thinker: Tea Parties about Far More than Taxes

American Thinker: Tea Parties about Far More than Taxes:

By Kyle-Anne Shiver

Many writers have dubbed the Tax Day Tea Parties as inconsequential, a fad that will die quickly, and of foolish origins that have nothing to do with the American patriots of revolutionary days. Patriots dumped a ship full of tea into Boston Harbor, these folks contend, to protest one thing: taxation without representation. We modern patriots have representation and are therefore insane to protest, or so this line of argument goes."