The Tea Act, passed in 1773, did not actually impose any new taxes on the colonies.

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One of the pieces of the Townshend Acts of 1767 that stayed, the tax on tea, became glaringly obvious as a result of the Tea Act.

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Americans regularly brewed Twinning's tea for a while in the 1700's, but then, in 1773, the British government passed the Tea Act, a measure designed to give an advantage to the British East India Company.

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This is the company's second act in the tea business.

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Then he left Republicans marginalized as Democrats worked on the Affordable Health Care Act, further fueling tea party activists.

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Some background: When the transportation act, known as TEA-21, was enacted in 1998, it tied spending levels to revenue collected by the government from highway user fees (various taxes on fuels, tires and so on) and credited to the highway account of the Highway Trust Fund.

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Such advance analyses is the key to reading the tea leaves correctly from new developments as they come to pass and act with conviction quickly and early.

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It was just four weeks ago that Bachmann stood alone as the Iowa front-runner and the darling of both tea party activists and social conservatives who typically attend the caucuses, the opening act of the Republican nomination fight.

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Our movement involved a new coalition of actors, many of whom were part of the vocal opposition to the doomed Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, but also involved groups such as the Tea Party Nation and the National College Republicans.

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