Tea Parties

In America yesterday, there were all these folks hanging around doing something or other with tea. I'm not really clear on the details - not sure they were either. Was looking around for some clear statement of what the whole things was all about and the closest I could find was this:



Thanks for clarifying, guys. Statistically, does this mean that a 6% increase would have been 200% tyranny? And how would that work in practice?