(04/16/09) Across the country yesterday, people gathered to protest taxes, bank bailouts, the federal stimulus package or some combination of all three. The rallies were called Tea Parties--meant to invoke the 1773 tax revolt in colonial Boston. Jonathan Brown went to a demonstration in Canton's village park yesterday and filed this story.
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