Tea party = Boston tea party 1700's = anti tax = anti tyranny. Am I right? And who did you vote for?

Question

Tea party = Boston tea party 1700's = anti tax = anti tyranny. Am I right? And who did you vote for?

Answer 1

No, I don't agree with you.



The Boston tea party of the 1700 wasn't formed because they were upset that a person of color became president.

Answer 2

The argument won't work. The british government was taxing the colonist's and sending all of it back to england. The only part of the taxes that stayed here was used to oppress the colonials. So a bunch of guys dressed like indians raided a ship and dumped tea over board in protest. The protest most likely wouldn't have taken place had the money been spent here! Today, what we call the Tea Party is simply an anti tax effort by a very wealthy few to avoid even having to pay taxes like other citizens do, and it doesn't stop there. They want to decide what taxes from the poor get spent on, discriminates against the poor, disabled and the elderly and has even engaged in racial separatism by de-funding some local schools and and re-segregating students.

Answer 3

There's a huge difference, and if you read any history, you might understand it. The people in the 1770s were protesting the fact that they were being taxed and regulated without having elected representation in the British Parliament. We HAVE elected officials who are supposed to represent us. We are not taxed without representation.

And, btw, the Boston Tea Party was an act of vandalism which destroyed property worth $1.7 million in today's currency. The Sons of Liberty could be called a terrorist organization, burning the homes of British loyalists and tarring and feathering some of them. Boatloads of those loyal to the British crown had to leave Boston and return to England for their own safety. The Founding Fathers were committing treason. They are heroes because they won. Had the colonies lost the Revolutionary War, these people would have been tried and executed.

Now, please understand, I love this country and appreciate what the Founding Fathers did--it was incredibly courageous, and they were brilliant men-- but I don't much like when people who have no idea what they're talking about try to make some half-assed, baseless point.

Answer 4

No. The Boston Tea Party of the 1700s was about taxation without representation. The contemporary 'tea party' is not unrepresented, and with the Republican Party overall is attempting to force their will by any means at their disposal-even the future of the country-on the about one half of the country's population with whom they disagree. Today's 'tea party' is far more tyrannical than those they oppose in all of their interests from economic to moral/religious domination of other people and in that respect is the polar opposite of the Boston Tea Party. The goals of today's tea party are sinister in the attempt to wrest power from others under the guise of fealty to freedom, which they narrowly define in their own interests.



They have, however, disclosed their multiple agendas-sometimes deliberately-and more and more people across the nation are rejecting it through the electoral process.

Answer 5

No, you are wrong!



The 1700's tea party was an act of rebelion or anarchy towards a remote government by people who felt the time had come for independence from colonization.

Answer 6

Assuming that is real, SPENDING is the severe difficulty, for money now no longer taken by making use of way of taxation will only be taken yet another technique, by making use of skill of borrowing (which could be made up for by making use of skill of taxes in some unspecified time interior the destiny, plus interest extra on maximum logical of it), or inflation (which by making use of skill of printing further money, reduces the procuring potential of each and each greenback, raising the expenses of commodities like nutrition and gas). Tea Partiers be conscious taking much less money from us by making use of skill of a skill way the exchange will without venture be taken by making use of skill of yet yet another equipment. In the two social gathering, this Spending spree is unsustainable and could maximum effective effect in an entire financial cave in with a view to make the 2008-2009 recession evaluate only like the roaring 20's.

Answer 7

In today's politics, you can call freedom, slavery... Or slavery, freedom... You can call white supremacy groups, patriots.. You can call it, right to work states... But ultimately, its all about working for, or below, minimum wage... When Ron Paul, came up with the idea, of the Tea Party... He warned, of the possibility... The Neo-Cons, taking over, the Tea Party... Just as they did... In early 2008, I actually gave thought, of supporting, Ron Paul... But did some research, on the guy, & didn't like, what I was seeing... But all in all... Ron Paul's vision, of the Tea Party, the Neo-Cons vision... Are completely different... Actually now, Ron's son Rand, is quite the follower, on the Neo-Con Tea Party...

As John McCain said, so many times, during his campaign... "You can put lip stick, on a pig, but its still, a pig"... You can tell me all day long, how enema's are good for you, but I still, don't want one... You can tell me all day long... The Tea Party, is looking out for my best interest... But I know better...

Answer 8

No. You are wrong.

Modern day TEA Baggers are some of the most uninformed, single-issue voters.

Their blatant ignorance led them to call themselves "TEA Baggers" in the first place, apparently unaware of the sexual connotation.

Further, their ignorant embrace of a desired result for a single issue has so far:

1. Played chicken with our national credit rating.

2. is currently playing chicken with the fiscal debt.



Even Boehner is getting frustrated with the TEA Bagger freshmen.

Answer 9

the tea party grew out of anger over the bank bailouts..but the plutocrats in the establishment GOP quickly changed the tea party agenda to birth certificates and campainging against healthcare for poor people



and the tea party never caught on

Answer 10

The modern tea party has nothing to do with the original tea party.



"By funding numerous rightwing organisations, the mega-rich Koch brothers have duped millions into supporting big business"

Link - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/25/tea-party-koch-brothers



"Michael Barone: Tea party ‘wackos and weirdos and witches’ cost GOP Senate seats"

Link - http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/09/michael-barone-tea-party-wackos-and-weirdos-and-witches-cost-gop-senate-seats-video/#ixzz2GM5MbatR



This too is worth reading:

Link - http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/11/nation/la-na-tea-party-20121111



As are these:



"Koch brothers now at heart of GOP power"

Link - http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/06/nation/la-na-koch-brothers-20110206



"Koch Oil Gives Marching Orders To Tea Party Congress"

Link - http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/koch-oil-gives-marching-orders-to-tea-party-congress/question-1328197/



-More and more, it seems like the Kochs created the Tea Party as part of a deliberate campaign to undermine, discredit US conservatism in general and the Republican Party in particular in order to destroy it from the inside.

Why would they do that? This might be a hint:



"What few realize is that the secretive oil billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure."

Link - http://exiledonline.com/a-peoples-history-of-koch-industries-how-stalin-funded-the-tea-party-movement/

Answer 11

Most people from Boston I talk to hate the fact that loony bible-thumping right-wing teabaggers stole the name "Tea Party" from them.

Answer 12

In the 1700's we went to war with our mother country over taxes.

After we won, the first thing our new government did was to impose taxes.

Answer 13

Anti-tax is treason. Our eighteenth Century ancestors got lucky. But they should have swung from a very tight rope. So should the Tea Baggers today.

Answer 14

no, you're on another planet, where you belong.