Over two-hundred years ago, a bunch of American colonists got together and held the first tea party to protest Britain's tea tax.

Last week, thousands of average Americans came together in cities across the nation in another round of modern-day tea parties. While I participated in two tea party events last year, I did not attend any on tax day last week.

I'm still waiting for the tea party activists to get angry. Think about it. Last year, thousands held tea parties to protest out of control government spending. The tea party faithful were mocked by comedians as tea baggers, our events under-reported (if they were covered at all) in the media and denigrated by the left-wing politicians as fringe and extreme. About the only person who ever said anything remotely positive about the tea parties was the president himself, when last March (2009), he said that (some of us) activists have (mainstream) legitimate concerns. And then the Congress and President, despite massive protest and disapproval, turn over one-sixth of our economy to the government and effectually socialize healthcare in this country. Despite all of the tea party gatherings last year and political buzz, the politicians apparently didn't get the message. If anything, it emboldened them to spend more and spend quickly.

So what now? As I mentioned in my last blog, 47% of all Americans didn't pay any federal taxes last year. The colonists revolted because they were being taxed with representation. Well, today, here and now, the reverse is happening - 47% of are being represented without taxation. Politicians are catering to this group with the intent of redistributing wealth to buy their votes. They will continue to grow that number in order to grow government and their constituencies. But as politicians are generally stupid, I'm almost certain that they will grow the number of those not taxed past our collective breaking point. If that number crosses 50%, will those of us who are the backbone of this country rise up at that point? We will sit in the exact same place as those first colonists who dumped tea into Boston's harbor. While we have a vote, the majority not paying taxes will be able to negate any impact our votes have, essentially causing us to be taxed without representation. Will we simply gather en masse at city hall, or our state capital, or on the National Mall and protest high taxes and increasing debt or will we actually take action? Standing in a group with no other intention other than to show united dissent isn't going to accomplish anything. Obamacare proved that. My guess is that more radical, socialist legislation will be passed between now and November, despite the latest round of tea party protests. We are going to have to act, and act soon.

If the Congress and President are too dense to listen when we gather in dissent, we've got two options left – vote them out or throw them out. If voting them out doesn't work, will we have the confidence in our convictions and beliefs to take that next step? A nation that allows majority representation without taxation will inevitably become a nation of taxation without representation. And in this country, the only way that has ever been successfully changed was when citizens revolted. Are we willing, as those who signed the Declaration of Independence, to risk our live, our fortunes and our sacred honor to restore this country's government to one that knows fiscal and social self-restraint?