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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

If you were British, well yes, they were unpatriotic because they were against the mother country. So we fought a war over that and other problems.

I suppose that's why we have a congress, to decide what is fair taxation. sometimes it works, sometimes not. But I rather enjoy the benefits of paying taxes. People need services and taxes are how we pay for them. Although I think the British got a better deal sometimes. universal health care, child care, etc