Frank's Tea Party Revolt

[justfrank]

Good Article

http://reaganbrats.com/Reagan_Brat_The_New_Tea_Party.html

The New Tea Party:
An Explanation for Tea Parties Today (April 15, 2009)
and Similarities Between the Original Party

In 1773 British parliament passed the infamous Tea Act that led to the Boston Tea Party. We all know that law levied a tax on tea for the American colonies, but you may not realize the law lowered the tax rate and made British tea less expensive. Part of the legislation granted a monopoly to the financially troubled East India Company. Britain was trying to bailout the near bankrupt East India Company, which was sitting on stockpiles of tea it could not sell. This monopoly would eliminate all private tea merchants and outlaw all other sources of tea.

American colonialists were rightfully angered for two reasons. First, colonial merchants’ livelihood was being taken away by the government and given to a failing corporation. If the government could do this with tea, it could do this with anything. Second, colonialists recognized the British government’s ploy to trick colonists into accepting and acknowledging parliament’s right to levy taxes on the colonies. Britain thought the colonies would pay the tax as long as the tea was cheap. We all know Americans would not take taxes without representation.

When the East India Company sent tea to America under the new law, ships were turned away in Philadelphia and New York. In Charleston tea made it off the ships, but was locked up in a warehouse only to be sold years later by Americans to fund the revolution. On the night of December 16, 1773, Boston threw their illustrious tea party. So here we stand over two-hundred thirty-five years later in the United States of America.

Why are we here?

Our Founding Fathers wanted a limited centralized federal government. Our founders did limit centralized government. They recognized an important truth that those of us gathered for our tea party recognize today: government can only control the economy by controlling people. When British parliament attempted to bailout the failing East India Company, our founders recognized the attempted theft of economic freedom. They opposed it vehemently.

Government has no business in business. Liberty to practice freedom in the marketplace is an inalienable right outlined in the Declaration of Independence and protected in our Constitution. When our government confiscates large amounts of private wealth and enters the marketplace, it has far exceeded the power bestowed by the people. It has gone far beyond the framework of the Constitution. And those acting in the government’s name have violated their oath and pledge to all Americans.

Indebtedness welcomes our progeny into America. They are beholden to government for a tremendous financial obligation. Every dollar government spent from our children’s piggy banks is one less dollar our children can spend, one less dollar of economic freedom. Government has already deprived our children thousands of dollars of freedom. The government has no permission to spend our unborn children’s money.

The federal government must return power to the people. It has grown far beyond the control of the governed. The union of states constituted the federal government. We cannot permit the federal government to coerce states’ actions through conditional federal payments from locally collected taxes. We must stop the federal bureaucrats from telling the states how to spend their money, our money. We cannot permit centralized power in a federal government lacking authority.

Americans deserve better. For decades our political parties have traded policies of “tax and spend” for “borrow and spend” between one another. Each policy serves the same purpose: expand the power of centralized federal government at the cost of individual freedom. Rarely do they relinquish the powers usurped.

Now in economically troubled times both the current administration like the last fumbles from one crisis to the next. Our woes began with a sub-prime mortgage crisis that grew into a liquidity crisis and a banking crisis then an auto crisis. With each new crisis came a larger power grab in the form of tax-payer funded bailout, which has perpetuated the underlying problems. With each new failing corporation the federal government tries to avert failure by giving out our money, the money we were not willing to surrender by choice to failing endeavors.

America needs good leaders now more than ever. We can no longer accept mediocre leadership that has resulted in the theft of our money. Government has failed us for far too long, at all levels, federal, state and local, running up colossal debt. Now as many large corporations fail wiping out our retirement savings, our government leaders move to protect and preserve them at our expense. To those government leaders I say this, “Let the failures fail.” We must wash away those failures and remove those responsible from their leadership positions. There are good leaders throughout America. We must recognize them and elevate them. We must elect good leaders to the boards of our companies and governments.

One person will not be America’s savior. Everyone must play a role. We must be weary when one person promises to solve all the nation’s problems. We hoped for change and received more of the same. Our problems are systemic of a distant centralized government that believes it can better manage our lives than we are capable. What is best for an elitist distant politician is not best for all Americans.

Our Founding Fathers created America with a limited centralized federal government. Federal government will be limited. Government shall not decide what companies will be subsidized out of failure with tax dollars. Our progeny will be afforded representation before they are taxed any more. America deserves good leaders. Government shall not decide who will run private businesses. Whether in business or government, we will replace ineffective leaders set on a path of failure. As the Boston Tea Party ignited cries against “taxation without representation”, today our tea party puts bureaucrats on notice. We will not tolerate government depriving citizens of their livelihood to save a failing corporation. We will not tolerate taxation without representation.