"The colonists understood the real fight wasn't over stamps, standing armies, taxation, or tea. Those were, as John Hancock explained, mere symptoms of the deadly disease..."

When you are told that the Founding fathers rebelled over a tax on tea, the whole reason for the American Revolution is being diminished and the very system that they fought against is enabled to take root again in America.

Quote courtesy of Michael Boldin at the Tenth Amendment Center in today's video: The 10th Amendment Wasn't a Add-on. It was the Entire Point.