Tea Party Platform 1. Eliminate Extensive Taxes ▪ Believe that heavy taxes are a burden for those who apply their personal liberty to work hard ▪ Need for government to protect the freedom of citizens with interference of the government that has exceeded its necessary size or scope. 2. Eliminate National Debt ▪ there is a need to have fiscal conservative policies at all levels of government ▪ narrow down the national debt for the good of the average
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of the tea party. The movement is suffering from extreme miscalculation and a foolish misreading of its opponents’ intentions. This‚ in turn‚ has created a moment of enlightenment‚ an opening to see things that were once missed. Many Republicans‚ of course‚ saw the disaster coming in advance of the shutdown. But they were terrified to take on a movement that is fortified by money‚ energy and the backing of a bloviating brigade of talk-show hosts. The assumption was that the tea party had become
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How the Tea Party Playbook Can Become the Democrats’ Anti-Trump Guide Since President Trump’s inauguration‚ Democrats have been calling for party unity to form an effective opposition against him. Democrats seem to have found an effective way to unite the party and start a resistance against Trump and his administration. By taking a page from the Tea Party playbook‚ the Democrats are building an uprising - one that the Trump administration will soon have to acknowledge. The plan is simple: start
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interview with Ezra Klein‚ Theda Skocpol discussed the ways that grassroots Tea Party Activists and elite groups‚ like Americans for Prosperity that early on in the Tea Party movement would have said that they spoke for the Tea Party‚ have developed over the last several years. Despite many American distancing themselves from the Tea Party label‚ Skocpol argues that the grassroots people who were heavily involved in the Tea Party‚ are still making an impact on the 2016 election‚ supporting people like
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The Shoemaker and the Tea Party The nickname “The Boston Tea Party” that refers to the rebellious actions of dumping tea into Boston harbor was actually given in a later time period. The original name that colonist described it as was “The Destruction of the Tea”.1An important man named George Robert Twelves Hewes gives a personal recollection of his participation during the prerevolutionary war. Hewes was renounced a hero in his later years towards his hundredth birthday. He was the last know
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Events that led to the Boston Tea Party: After the English won the French and Indian war in 1763‚ the King passed the Sugar Act (a set a tax on sugar and molasses)‚ the Stamp Act (a set tax on all legal papers)‚ and the Townshend Acts (taxes on glass‚ paint‚ oil‚ lead‚ paper‚ and tea.) The reason for passing these acts was to make up for all the money lost during the war and to pay for future costs. The colonists saw this as useless‚ and refused to pay the taxes set on certain items. The British
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arrogance and his participation in‚ of the now historic "Boston tea Party". George Hewes‚ the Boston shoemaker‚ was over ninety years old when he tells his story to a journalist in 1834. In my paper I hope to enlighten you on the similarities of the action and attitude of John Malcolm to the importation and sale of tea in the American colonies and why Hewes and his comrades believe their actions were more just‚ than that of the tea sellers and John Malcolm . First‚ lets discuss the feelings
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Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party is typically viewed as one of the most popular‚ well-known events of the Revolutionary War. The Boston Tea Party occurred on the night of December 17‚ 1773. The colonists were fed up with Britain taxing them and trying to regain control. The Boston Tea Party was a direct response to the Tea Act‚ an act created to save the East India Tea company‚ left the colonists paying very high taxes on tea. Many people drank tea and enjoyed it very much so it left many
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We are a nation born of by an act of civil disobedience. On December 17‚ 1763 a group calling themselves “The Sons of Liberty” boarded three British tea ships and dumped the economic equivalent of $1.7million of tea into Boston Harbor. The “Boston Tea Party‚” was in protest of the Tea Act of 1773‚ a bill many colonists viewed as taxation tyranny. Consequently‚ Parliament closed Boston to merchant shipping and established military rule in Massachusetts. When our forebearers responded by calling the
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colony had boarded three British tea ship as Mohawk Indians. They were protesting the taxes that the British had put in place on tea and had dumped 342 chests of tea in the harbor. The Boston Tea Party lead to the Revolutionary War by upsetting the Colonists due to the unfair taxation‚ overbearing British rule and the overgrowing differences between American and British beliefs. After the French and Indian war King George III and British Parliament had made a tax on tea to pay off the debts that resulted
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