The original Boston Tea Party was a physical assault at night on the private property of the world's largest multinational corporation, the British East India Company.
The slogan of the American Revolution was NOT "down with taxes" but "No Taxation without Representation".
The Founders FOUNDED a strong central national government when they wrote the Constitution afterward, since there was already a small government, locally-run thing (Articles of Confederation) in place. Which they were not satisfied with.
Alexander Hamilton's famous "Report on Manufacturers" was an attack on free markets/free trade policy, and is now associated with its modern versions: 1) "Infant Industries" theory, whereby developing countries have a right to have a major state role in developing their economies and newfound industries and to protect them with tariffs at least until they are in a position to compete with the companies of richer, more developed states; 2) "strategic industries" theory, whereby even for highly developed countries, some industries are matters of life and death, or are crucial to the future development of the country, or are matters of national security and so a high degree of state involvement in the economy, in assisting industries and economic development and infrastructure are justified even in a capitalist system, and 3) "import substitution" - later mainly practiced in postwar Latin American countries, in which countries close off imports from richer, and more developed countries whose companies, like the East India Company, could wipe out their local ones by selling more cheaply, and develop industries, products, resources, etc. that can provide substitute products to those that would other be imported and which would render the country a helpless dependent economically of the more advanced states (a state also later called "neo-imperialism" or further analyzed in "dependency" theory). So Hamilton and the economic policy of the United States until around World War I was based on these, and not Adam Smith's and other free market or free trade ideas. It would have been pretty pointless to fight 7 years to win independence from Britain only to then be totally dependent on their companies, their banks and their economy. The Founders knew better and so do many countries in the Global South that know enough to fight to be independent of today's global corporations and world markets.
How these events and realities that define the American Revolution ended up in the hands of "it's mine, it's mine, it's all mine !" individualist anti-tax all the time types boggles the mind.
In any case, as to our WIS colleague, I reiterate (and he is in no way related to the arguments I have made here, nor do I have any reason to think he shares my views), TeaParty used that username before 2008 and before the political Tea Party came about, and I have seen nothing to suggest that it comes from any particular ideological agenda, but rather the more general, shared and generic reference to patriotic memory and to the American Revolution.