Associated Press - April 15, 2009 3:45 PM ET
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Protestors dumped symbolic tea boxes into Covell Lake in Sioux Falls as part of a national tax day protest on Wednesday.
People portraying Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Uncle Sam criticized big government, too much spending and loss of personal freedom in speeches to the crowd, estimated by organizers at around 3,000.
The re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party carried a modern-day twist with boxes labeled "Tarp," "Bailout" and "`Higher taxes." The crowd chanted "`Dump that tea" as two men in colonist garb threw the boxes out of a replica of a sailboat from the nation's earliest days.
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