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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.