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Originally Posted by Willravel
I think you're getting the recent tea parties mixed up with the original, which was about taxation without representation. These new ones are about a plethora of things that the right are simply mad about.
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Yeah, the spending of tax dollars, right? Isn't this about spending programs that they don't agree with (aka that won't benefit them directly)?
(I'm trying to learn more about this as I go along.)
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