have been horrified by this many people today think that eighty put the tea party which led to the boston tea party says that the tea act which led to the boston tea party was simply an increase in taxes on t.v. paid by american colonists i think that's where the whole taxation without representation mean campaign but actually the purpose of the t.m. act was to give the east india company full and unlimited access to the american tea trade and to exempt that company from having to pay taxes to britain on t. export into the american colonies and even give the company a tax refund on millions of pounds of tea that they were unable to sell and holding an inventory now their words the tear of seven hundred seventy three was the largest corporate tax break at that point in time in the history of the world. and since at that time most of the british government and royalty were stockholders in the east india tea company it was also a classic example of crony capitalism. the purpose of the tea act was to increase the profitability of the east india company so its stock holders which included the

have been horrified by this many people today think that eighty point that the tea party which led to the boston tea party she's with the tea act which led to the boston tea party was simply an increase in taxes on t.v. paid by american colonists i think that's where the whole taxation without representation mean campaign but actually the purpose of the t.m. act was to give the east india company full and unlimited access to the american tea trade and to exempt that company from having to pay taxes to britain on t. export into the american colonies and even give the company a tax refund on millions of pounds of tea that they were unable to sell and holding an inventory in other words the tea act of seven hundred seventy three was the largest corporate tax break at that point in time in the history of the world. and since at that time most of the british government and royalty were stockholders in the east india company it was also a classic example of crony capitalism. the purpose of the tea act was to increase the profitability of the east india company so its stock holders which included the k

the people who participated in the boston tea party in seven hundred seventy three hundred two hundred forty years ago this year if their identities had been known i mean it was george roberts hughes who brilliant fifty years later wrote the what the was the one person who outed his own identity as one of the members of the boston tea party and names two others who are dead but basically to this day we don't know who else was there other than probably sam adams because he kind of bragged about it but if their identities had been known we would have there never would have been an american revolution there never would have been the boston tea party there never would have been the protests that led to the founding of this country and i'm not putting this the context of arguing in favor of violent revolution which is ultimately what happened but even political protest how can you have political protest without anonymity. yeah i'm glad you brought this up because this whole idea of a biometric id is so anathema to the basic core of what this country is supposed to be about i mean it's been

would have there never would have been an american revolution there never would have been the boston tea party there never would have been the protests that led to the founding of this country and i'm not putting this the context of arguing in favor of violent revolution which is ultimately what happened but even political protest how can you have political protest without anonymity. i'm glad you brought this up because this whole idea of a biometric id is so anathema to the basic core of what this country is supposed to be about i mean it's been a common element in the you know every media representation of totalitarianism the guard saying your papers please that was supposed to be the antithesis of what america was about heck it's based it's built into christianity the number of the beast the mark without which one cannot buy or sell i mean there's a deep strain in america that should resist this maniacally in fervently and i think a lot of people don't know about it yet a lot of people just think of it as oh sure it's great to make that illegal immigrants have to prove something to work wel

anti tobacco tax and those anti-tax and you know boston tea party like anything but i think that the average person who identifies themselves in the tea party or who showed up for these tea party events they believed that they were part of a populist movement and in fact to some extent it became certainly on the ground where the volunteers are showing up a populist movement it's just that they thought that the way to get more wealth for the middle class was to cut taxes for billionaires i think the reason why the tea party's not around anymore well i should pretty much don't see much activity is that after a year or so of reciting that you cut taxes for billionaires it'll help all the rest of us you know the people figured out that it's not going to work. so michael in dublin virginia a michael got a minute. do a quick one ok governor yes mark romney gets to see you in the big picture are we watching. is about controlling to resort to material goods but dividing your racial lines and all current a lot of political learn. there by your own little battle but this is all about taking ove

testimony from those in charge, as soon as we found a mistake like they called our patriots at the boston tea partymistake that's not online anymore and that's not the issue, it shouldn't have been there in the first place, how do we bring the checks and balances today and in the future so the parents know what is taught? >> this particular curriculum is used by 875 school districts, who came up with this curriculum? >> we have what are called regional services, divided into 20 regions and help over a thousand school districts. we have about 10% of the school districts in the united states and in some cases sharing by personnels we have a lot of school districts in the rural areas and began this program originally to help teachers as a source to teach lessons not to be the lesson and it's grown into a huge program, again as you said, in 70% of our school districts and now the teachers are teaching directly from the lesson, that's not the way it should be, that's not the way it was intended and we need to change that. on top of this, alisyn, what was really shocking to me is they actually forced tea

i want to say-- boston is leading me to say boston tea party. 1773 is the right time for that. i'm gonna say d, tea, final answer. meredith: absolutely right. good thinking. tea is the answer. how much money is behind it? there you go! mathew brown suddenly a very happy guy. $37,600. go give your girlfriend a big hug. welcome back to "millionaire." mathew brown from derwood, maryland, playing a great game here. 37,600 in his bank. there's a lot of good money still to be had up on the money board. how are you doing? >> i'm doing really well, i think. meredith: yeah. very good that you jumped over that question, you know. i know that's often hard to do, but it was the right move to make. you got the next one right for $25,000. now just 8 away from the million, 4 away from round 2. at that point, you keep all the money in your bank. you ready to keep playing? >> i'm ready. meredith: let's play. many wondered if an episode of "seinfeld" inspired david and victoria beckham to give their daughter harper what middle name? breeze, pickle, seven, velvet? "seinfeld" fan? >> i am, and i c

tea party candidates, potentially encouraging conservative donors to put in money to oppose what karl rove is trying to do. >> the fringiness. the fringies being upset by the establishment. really quick here, lori montgomery. bostonere might be a romney that gets in this senate race. do you think that's realistic or silliness? >> you know, i can't imagine that the romneys -- >> your tone says it all. >> are up for another one of these. >> who do you have, ravens-49ers? >> i'm an eagles fan, so once they're not in contention, i stop paying attention. i got to go with the ravens, see ray lewis finish on top. >> lori? >> if playoff joe flacco shows up, i think the ravens win. if regular season joe flacco shows up, not so much. >> thanks to both of you. just over to hours from kickoff down in the big easy and also two hours from the biggest of the year in advertising as well. we'll give you a preview of the ads to watch for in between the plays. first, though, a teenage girl just back from her trip to washington to perform with president obama's inauguration gunned down in chicago. a senseless tragedy that puts another face on the epidemic of gun violence. reverend al sharpton is going to join me next. e. a talking t