america turned 200, lefties started a tea party movement. a lefty group called the people s bicentennial mission had a plng and activity guide for citizens participation during the bicentennial years. in that guide in 1974 they suggested that people form tea parties because they said the country needed, quote, a new party, a movement that will treat tax reform as one aspect of a fight for genuine equality of property and power. equality of property? hmm. yeah, the lefty tea party idea from the 70s was that the tea whereby the t in tea party should stand for tax equity for americans. equity as in equality. they made some suggestions for lefty tea partiers including, quote, how about a king george exhibit of tax avoiders in some public park with pictures and charts of the loopholes they used?