Do We Need Another Boston Tea Party? | OVERNIGHT OPINIONS

I think it might be time for another Boston Tea Party. What do you think? Back in the day, our colonist forefathers were peeved that the Brits imposed a tax on them. We didn’t even have representation in their government.

So what did they do? They dumped tea off the boats and into the Boston harbor. And this wasn’t a small event. They disposed of 92,000 pounds (roughly 46 tons) of tea. More than 240 chests full of tea were smashed open with axes and spilled into the water. In today’s money, that racked up more than $1,700,000 dollars of damage.

This was all over a 3 cent tax per pound on tea. Yes , three cents. And it wasn’t considered high for the time. And get this, it wasn’t even a new tax. Parliament had introduced it in 1767 as part of the larger “Townshend Revenue Acts.” This imposed tariffs on colonial purchases of molasses,  ...