You don’t have to be a Libertarian to join one of the thousands of Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Parties on April 15. Whatever your political affiliation, the Libertarian Party is urging advocates of economic freedom to rise up in protest.

The Libertarians are taking credit for initiating the “tea party” concept. The group says it started with the Libertarian Party of Illinois, which began organizing a 2009 Tax Day ‘Boston Tea Party’ in Chicago back in December of 2008 and created a Facebook group for it on Feb. 10, 2009. Nine days later, CNBC’s Rick Santelli, broadcasting from the floor of the Chicago stock exchange, started a grassroots wildfire that is raging across the United States of America.

No matter whose idea it was, poised to go down in American history as the day the people stood up and said, “We’ve been taxed enough already.” READ THE FULL ARTICLE