For those who are not familiar with USA revolutionary history, the Boston Tea Party was a riot against an increase in tax on imported tea imposed by the king of England without any consultation with the British North American colonies. The actual complete phrase was “No taxation without representation.” The irony is, many Trump supporters are not saying anything about Trump’s unilateral decision to impose tariffs, bypassing the representation Congress is supposed to provide.
Alt text: A two panel comic. Top panel has a title of 1776, and a white man is yelling angrily. The word bubble says “Pay a 3% tax on tea and paper. Screw that! Revolution!” The bottom panel has the title Now and a white man looking despondent. The word bubble says “Pay 40% of your income. Sure that’s totally fine.”
Context - the Tea Party was in response to tariff-free tea arriving in Boston. The rioters were tea smugglers who didn’t pay any tax, but feared for their price gouging practices due to the arrival of cheaper legitimate tea. There was a strong element of personal score-settling, as the violence culminated in the total destruction of a competing smuggler’s ship by arson. The whole thing was so shady, the leaders of the revolutionary movement immediately disowned the actions.
Also, at the time, the average citizen of the 13 colonies paid 10% of the tax that British citizens did. Taxation was a pretext rather than a causation of the revolution.
Kinda sounds like the Tea Party Movement did chose a great analogy.