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    2 days ago

    The Tea they destroyed was tariff-free, which hurt the organisers who were smuggling tea and charging a huge mark-up to customers

    This is a critical bit that gets overlooked in the US framing of events. The taxed tea was actually cheaper than what local businessmen were charging! We didn’t have a grass-roots revolution for the benefit of “we the people”. It was organized and funded by the local elites, who were throwing a fit that larger overseas elites were telling them what to do.