Sounds like the Tea Party to me.
'Sounds like the Tea Party to me.'
I hope that comment is intended to be sarcasm. If not, it is simply inane. Perhaps some explanation will help clarify the issue.
TEA is an acronym for Taxed Enough Already. The term 'TEA party' refers to the historic 'tea party' at Boston harbor in December, 1773 when American colonists threw British shipments of tea (then the national beverage) overboard as a protest against the British 'tea tax'. It was a significant event that culminated in the American Revolution. Today, the TEA party is a movement that has as its primary goal, bringing our massively overgrown government back to a more reasonable, affordable size. There are no riots or vandalism connected to TEA party rallies.
The people rioting in the streets of London are not really 'getting their taxes back'. I suspect many are on the British 'dole' (welfare) and pay little or no taxes. They are stealing Nike sneakers and flat screen TVs because they can. The smashing and burning are ancillary actions done out of malice and, probably, an adrenaline rush. The 'poor against the rich' meme is a fallacy, except that, as always, those who have less want what others have, preferably without working for it. The underside of human nature on display. This is what happens when a nation succumbs to socialism and, at some point, as former British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher once stated, other peoples money runs out.
The U.S. TEA party is attempting to rein in enormous amounts of government spending and feckless economic policies before American gets to that point but the opportunity to reverse the inevitably disastrous, socialist course we're on will slam shut after the November 6, 2012 election. Should American voters decide to keep Obama and the Democrats in positions of power our economy will definitely continue to be destroyed by the insatiable demands of Big Government. Patriots won't riot, they'll adapt and survive on their own initiative but when people who have been raised on the 'entitlement' culture realize that there is no more 'free' money coming, we could well see the kind of trouble that is plaguing England, today. I pray that doesn't happen.