Tea To Wash Down All That Pork?
Tax protests are igniting across the country. So-called tea parties are planned across the nation, from Washington, DC to San Diego, CA.
Seattle on Monday. Denver on Tuesday. Mesa AZ on Wednesday.
Overland Park, Kansas today. What a week, huh? We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli’s call for a “Chicago Tea Party,” is really taking off.
David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has a nice piece out today spotlighting the growing taxpayer revolt the rest of the MSM won’t cover. He interviewed our registered commenters Liberty Belle Keli Carender, who spearheaded the Seattle anti-pork protest, and HuskerGirl Amanda Grosserode, who organized today’s anti-stimulus demonstration against Democrat Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park, MS.
I’m happy to report on several new protest events now on the docket.
My friend Michael Patrick Leahy of Top Conservatives on Twitter and his crew are spearheading “simultaneous local tea parties around the country, beginning in Chicago, and including Washington DC, Fayetteville NC, San Diego CA, Omaha Nebraska, and dozens of other locations” for next Friday.
And how does Boston, the site of America’s first—and still best—tax revolt, mark this new birth of freedom?
By raising the state gas tax 80%:
Governor Deval Patrick, who formally unveiled the proposal to raise the tax by 19 cents a gallon, seemed conflicted himself as he abandoned previous statements opposing the gas tax hike or calling it ill-timed as families struggle through a recession. Now, his proposal would not only raise the gas tax, but continue to increase it yearly with the rate of inflation.
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If approved by the Legislature, the increase would push the state’s gas tax to 42.5 cents a gallon, just slightly more than New York’s 41.3 cents, now the highest in the country. With the 18.4 cent federal tax added in, Massachusetts drivers may soon pay 61.9 cents a gallon in taxes.
No, you gasp!
Yes, we answer, we can!
Joe Howell said,
February 23, 2009 @ 8:16 am
The protest movement is growing and the idea of a tea party is very American. I urge everyone to read the series on the history of American Economics that is being done right now at www.rightviewpoint.com. I will show how far we have departed from the intent of the framers of the Constitution.
John Bisceglia said,
February 23, 2009 @ 8:16 pm
Our families are seriously harmed by legal inequity, and issues like THIS substantiate a tax revolt?! ANY American who pays taxes needs to realize that they are responsible for our taxes also. We stopped.
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michael dale said,
April 5, 2009 @ 8:08 am
we should all start calling loud and clear for obama ,reed,pelosi,dod, barney frank, tim geithner to resign now!!! if we are really serious in our cause write to them tell them resign now!!!
Ki N'sey said,
April 23, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
Michael Dale. You are a complete idiot seriously. You think calling people anad telling them to resign will do anything? Besides, I don’t agree on your stupid premise that you pulled right out of your ass.
FreedomLyn said,
September 12, 2009 @ 10:49 am
Where was this group last year, or when the Patriot Act was passed? Do your people really know how many of their personal rights were lost with that Act?? Government has been overspending for decades–why are you only objecting now?
Re: using the Gadsden Flag–DON’T!!! My family is very military, we hang this flag and now your “tea party” movement has tainted it. — by a Curious, disgusted taxpayer
FreedomLyn said,
September 12, 2009 @ 10:51 am
Go, Bloodthirsty Liberal!