The Tea Party Express wraps up a whirlwind national tour tomorrow with a rally in D.C. to coincide with the deadline for filing federal tax returns. After a press conference at 9 a.m., the protesters will decamp to Freedom Plaza, where they will host a “People’s Tax Revolt” at 11 a.m.

Throughout the tour, which started in Searchlight, Nevada on March 27 and is in Boston today, speakers and participants have decried Washington spending and high taxes and threatened to vote out any members of Congress who have voted for higher spending. The irony of aligning with the Tea Party while threatening action via the ballot box has apparently been lost on many of its members, who seem to have forgotten that the Boston Tea Party was all about being taxed without representation.

That being said, we do hope participants in tomorrow’s “People’s Tax Revolt” stop to notice all the “Taxation Without Representation” license plates around them and see the electronic tax ticker in front of the Wilson Building, which tallies up the amount of federal taxes that District residents have paid over the years while lacking the real voting representation that all other Americans enjoy.