Why Fox is beating the other networks/Tea Party

[totalwar23]

akuma587 said:

totalwar23 said:

akuma587 said:
I'm sorry, but the point of the tea parties was that there was no taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. Unless you were deprived of your right to vote somehow, there really isn't an appropriate analogy to the Boston Tea Party.

Um no, that wasn't what the Boston Tea Party was really about. In fact, the tea was cheaper with tax than the tea that was smuggled in.

 

Please then, enlighten us, what WAS it about?

 

The Tea Act was passed by Parliament to bail out the East India Company, which was on the verged of bankruptcy. They needed to sell their products, at any price to stay afloat. So, the British government allowed the East India company to bypass American merchants and sell directly to American consumers (a monopoly system). This, of course, angered American merchants because they were unfairly cut out of the deal. Also, buying the tea would set precedent; letting Parliament grant monopolies on colonial imports. Originally, the governor of Massachusetts planned to seize the tea legally because of failure to pay the port taxes but Samuel Adams had a quicker plan of action. The Tea Act had nothing to do with taxes.