Tea Party – Reality Bites….
In the home of the original Boston tea party, a different brand of pseudo-revolutionaries, the Tea Partiers are gathering today. Multimillionaire and former Alaska half-Governor Sarah Palin will be there as part of a 19-day, 49-stop tour by the Tea Party Express corporation, a billionaire-funded tour that began in Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight. Boston is the next-to-last stop before concluding tomorrow — Tax Day — in Washington DC. Ironically, the real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the East India Company pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, underpricing them and driving them out of business. That first million-dollar act of vandalism by a band of anti-globalization and anti-corporate protestors in November, 1773 kicked off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America –BY THOM HARTMANN
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