The Truth about the Original Tea Party

[Xipe Totec]

This is an incredibly illuminating video. It shows that the real sore point wasn't that taxes were too high, but that the Tea Act exempted the East India Company from tea taxes. It was a protest against corporate tax subsidies.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. The height of irony

I wish this had been thrown in the teabaggers' faces more often during their early days. I did my part, however, in pointing out that they were 'useful idiots' for corporate entities who definitely don't have their best interests in mind.

[zbdent]

2. you gotta be kidding me ...

do you really think that anything connected, even remotely, with ANY reality matters to today's Teahadists?

[Tigress DEM]

5. The TRUTH is still the TRUTH. And that makes it a non-slanderous JIBE.

THEY didn't realize what the name teabagger implied.

THEY don't understand the Constitution to the point of complete and utter shutdown of the government.

THEY don't understand Green Eggs and Ham.

THEY don't understand that the Original Tea Party was against corporate power run amok.

HILARIOUS!!

[Snake Plissken]

3. So the baggers think that wearing teabaggers from their heads represents fighting taxes

when in reality it represent a fight against the monopoly creating tax breaks which their owners pay politicians to give them.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Succinctly accurate. nt

[Tigress DEM]

7. Yep - Ironic isn't it. Luv Thom Hartman. He knows his history! nt

[DreamSmoker]

4. Bump

Now this was something i had no clue of.. Didn't learn this in School...

[farmbo]

8. Fast forward to 2009... a multi-national corporation (Koch Industries) finances...

... the infrastructure (bus fleets, workshops, advertising) for the modern day "Tea Party".
Their organizing principles: 1) lower taxes on corporations, 2) opposition to universal health care, 3) maintaining tax subsidies for fossil fuels (and suppression of subsidies for renewables), and 4) abolishing direct election of senators by voters.

In other words, the restoration of "taxation without representation" in the United States.

The British East India Company would be mighty proud.

[cantbeserious]

9. Kick And Recommend - History, The Great Equalizer

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[Plucketeer]

10. I was so tickled to learn of this when Thom

brought it out a couple of years ago. I think it would be more effective if there were a condensed (read that:simplified) version that your average, dim-witted "bagger" could comprehend.

[certainot]

11. and it should be called the talk radio party, or the limbaugh party

[drynberg]

12. Tried to post this via "like" to FB, denied, so I went to copying the URL and posting, denied three

times...what's going on? Is the truth being censored? Anyway, thanks for posting Thom and the Truth.

[dsteve01]

13. meh

meh