Boston Tea Party was about representation, not taxation per se

Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her anti-tax Tea Party acolytes are railing against taxes without realizing that the rallying cry of the American Revolution was: "Taxation without representation is tyranny," not taxation is tyranny. This is why the Boston Tea Party t...

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