I might be wrong here, but I remember reading somewhere that the trigger for the Boston Tea Party was not the imposition of taxes on tea, but their reduction. T

I might be wrong here, but I remember reading somewhere that the trigger for the Boston Tea Party was not the imposition of taxes on tea, but their reduction. This threatened the business model of local tea-smugglers, who promptly rioted and threw the (now cheaper) legally imported tea into the harbour.