[joshua c]

Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,” the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773, a bill enacted by the British parliament to save the faltering British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.

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This is interesting. Was it about the tax, which was lowered. Or was it about the British monopoly on American tea trade?

[joshua c]

The other thing that does not get much press is the boycott of British goods.

Many colonialists had to go without or make their own during the boycott.

Americans today should be doing the same thing today to break the monopoly of the left today.

A good place to start would be to cancel your cable tv and force the cable companies to offer a la carte programming to break the monopoly of the left tv channels.

Anyone who has cable tv is paying the left tv channels whether they watch them or not. Each channel in the basic package(ABC, CBC, NBC, etc) gets a subscriber fee paid by the cable subscriber.

If you write a check to the cable tv company, you are funding the Left.

[canalabamian]

This is interesting. Was it about the tax, which was lowered. Or was it about the British monopoly on American tea trade?

It was about both, wasn't it?

Because of the taxes a black market had sprung up. Customs agent were then armed with Writs of Assistance which allowed them to enter, search, and seize any goods thought to have circumvented customs agents (collectors of customs taxes). The tea was not off loaded from the ship because it would have incurred an immediate customs tax, and the ship couldn't leave harbor without offloading its product. At least that's my recollection from Fischer's book on Paul Revere.

Nothing on the ship was destroyed other than a lock to the cargo hold (except the cases of tea), which was subsequently replaced. At least a few participants were "tuned up" for attempting to remove small amounts of the tea.

I think it was an escalation and reaction to Crown taxes and trade monopoly, which allowed no other alternative to products of the Empire.

[NonValueAdded]

This is interesting. Was it about the tax, which was lowered. Or was it about the British monopoly on American tea trade?

I believe it was about Samuel Adams asking Paul Revere to engrave a plaque with the words "never let a good crisis go to waste."