[quote=danthedart]I thought the tea parties were about taxation without representation… i.e. the Federal Reserve printing money.

As much as our representatives are failing us, the sales tax increase was not taxation without representation. [/quote]

I think the tea parties are meant to express outrage about more than sales taxes – and more specifically, they are intended to oppose taxpayer funded bailouts and the plethora of other pork in the trillion dolalr “stimulus” package. As the majority of taxpayers vehemently oppose the use of such funds and the accrual of this level of debt, any tax levied to support these expenditures DOES represent taxation without representation.