Best of the TEA Party invitations

TEA, of course, means "taxed enough already."

Bill Whittle looks back at the Founding Fathers for inspiration.

Although local morning radio hosts Brad and Britt were careful to say that's there's an important difference between "taxation without representation" and today's "taxation with lousy representation," they neglected to mention mitigating factors that make today's "tea parties" legitimate heirs of the tax protest tradition. Princeton Univsersity Press author Alvin Rabushka, for example, notes that by today's standards, "the overall level of taxation in the colonies was extremely light." Moreover, "The burden of a tax must take into account the losses of economic activity associated with the tax, whether it is imposed on property, labor, trading, or consumption."

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