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An event coming up this weekend will be reminiscent of the Boston Tea Party more than two hundred years ago.

It's all part of the Quincy Tax Day Tea Party this Saturday.

Thousands of people from all over Quincy, Western Illinois and Northeast Missouri are expected to crowd into Clat Adams Park in Quincy to protest the massive federal spending in stimulus projects and bail-outs.

Organizers of the event say this is meant to be a public forum for everyone concerned about how our tax dollars are being spent.

They're hoping area legislators will listen to their cries and homemade signs to stop spending money the country doesn't have.

They say this amounts to us paying the bills for federal spending we never asked for, through higher taxes in the end.

Organizers say that's taxation without representation, which is why the Boston Tea Party will be partially recreated along the Mississippi River.

Co-organizer Steve McQueen said, "Spending of this nature is bound to lead to a situation where we have taxation without representation and more specifically taxation without deliberation and its my belief and the belief of others that taxation without deliberation has already happened."

Co-organizer Teri Cary, said, "Well I feel they will take home in their hearts a patriotic feeling towards their country and go away with more knowledge of what we're dealing with today."

McQueen said, "It's our responsibility as adults in this nation that our children aren't paying in the future for our past."

Quincy's Tax Day is this Saturday, April fourth at one o'clock in the afternoon at Clat Adams Park on Quincy's riverfront.

Organizers are hoping everyone also brings a couple of items of canned food to donate to area food pantries.

If you'd like to learn more about the national movement, log onto www.quincyteaparty.com