{"id":187687,"date":"2011-04-04T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/04\/the-real-history-of-the-boston-tea-party\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T01:07:00","slug":"the-real-history-of-the-boston-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/04\/the-real-history-of-the-boston-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real History of the Boston Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object height=\"323\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9UiLZk2TE8k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9UiLZk2TE8k?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"390\" height=\"323\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I love me some good history<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It appears that the Boston Tea Party, i.e the dumping of tea in Boston harbor, was<b> not<\/b> about &#8220;Taxation Without Representation,&#8221; but rather about tax <b>cuts<\/b> without representation.<\/p>\n<p>The issue at hand was the fact that the East India Tea Company was granted a specific exemption to the tax on tea, which allowed them to drive it&#8217;s small &#8220;Yankee Trader&#8221; competitors.<\/p>\n<p>So here is a note to the Teabaggers out there, it ain&#8217;t about taxes, it&#8217;s about sweetheart deals to big business.<\/p>\n<p>In your face, Dick Armey and the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/karoli\/thom-hartmann-tells-real-history-tea-party\">Crooks and Liars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love me some good history It appears that the Boston Tea Party, i.e the dumping of tea in Boston harbor, was not about &#8220;Taxation Without Representation,&#8221; but rather about tax cuts without representation. The issue at hand was the fact that the East India Tea Company was granted a specific exemption to the tax &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,983,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-taxes","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}