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Was the Boston Tea Party about taxes?
Was the Boston Tea party all about taxation or was it a combination of things? Is it true that the new tea parties spring up are about taxes, too?
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Hello @kingpin!
The Boston Tea Party refers to many political protests made by American Activists from different political viewpoints that have invoked the Tea Party as a symbol of their protest. This protest is not only against taxes but on other concerns as well. In 1973, on the 200th anniversary of the Tea Party, a mass meeting at Feneuil Hall called for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon and protested against oil companies in the ongoing oil crisis. Afterward, protesters boarded a replica ship in Boston Harbor and hanged an effigy of Nixon and dumped several empty drums into the harbor.
In 1998, two conservative US congressmen put the federal tax code into a chest marked "tea" and dumped into the harbor.
And in early 2009, there were a series of citizens gatherings called "Tea Parties" which started to protest the recent increase government spending, specifically Pres. Obama's budget and economic stimulus package.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
The Boston Tea Party refers to many political protests made by American Activists from different political viewpoints that have invoked the Tea Party as a symbol of their protest. This protest is not only against taxes but on other concerns as well. In 1973, on the 200th anniversary of the Tea Party, a mass meeting at Feneuil Hall called for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon and protested against oil companies in the ongoing oil crisis. Afterward, protesters boarded a replica ship in Boston Harbor and hanged an effigy of Nixon and dumped several empty drums into the harbor.
In 1998, two conservative US congressmen put the federal tax code into a chest marked "tea" and dumped into the harbor.
And in early 2009, there were a series of citizens gatherings called "Tea Parties" which started to protest the recent increase government spending, specifically Pres. Obama's budget and economic stimulus package.
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
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