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Old 04-14-2009, 02:13 PM   #1
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Looks like Americans are coming together tomorrow, tax day and protesting throughout the nation as part of the Tax Tea Party!!!

I believe another event is being planned for the 4th of July...

Here are some cool links to help prepare for tomorrow:

First a link to a clip of President Reagan...that could be recaptured in 2012 with the right person:

http://www.archive.org/details/Reagan2012

Now the official link...go through and find your state and closest city to see the time/location to participate!!!

http://taxdayteaparty.com/

I'm planning to attend the Richardson, Rockwall and Dallas...depending on traffic.
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I had 2 possibilities on who would start this thread. I was thinking about starting a vbookie on it.

I would have won money.
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Ahhh, what is the Tax Day ?
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I did my best...provided an opportunity...I guess it was my way of a bail out for you...too bad you didn't set up the vbookie.

Who else might attend one of the events tomorrow?
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So you're asking a corrupt government to regulate itself?

Good luck with that...
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Not enough vbookie events around here and you pass this up?
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From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/o...oned_0415.html)

"It’s one thing for a news outlet to cover a political protest — that’s pretty logical. It’s quite another for a news outlet to repeatedly encourage its viewers to attend a political protest. Far from practicing legitimate journalism, it’s blatantly and unabashedly political."

Anyone who thinks this is actual grassroots political protest is kidding themselves.
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I suppose that renting some buses and then going out and recruiting people and taking them to AIG Head Quarters is actually grass roots...funded by some "community organizing group" like ACORN...

In the modern age of technology, grass roots takes on a hole new meaning!!!

Someone using the airwaves to campaign their message...that's grass roots, like it or not.
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I suppose that renting some buses and then going out and recruiting people and taking them to AIG Head Quarters is actually grass roots...funded by some "community organizing group" like ACORN...

In the modern age of technology, grass roots takes on a hole new meaning!!!

Someone using the airwaves to campaign their message...that's grass roots, like it or not.
No, it's not. That's propaganda from an establishment. You just willfully acknowledged that Fox News is there to spew the Republican Party line and not report the news.

Just don't take the pamphlets from the white supremacist organizations that will be there tomorrow in full force.
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From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/o...oned_0415.html)

"It’s one thing for a news outlet to cover a political protest — that’s pretty logical. It’s quite another for a news outlet to repeatedly encourage its viewers to attend a political protest. Far from practicing legitimate journalism, it’s blatantly and unabashedly political."

Anyone who thinks this is actual grassroots political protest is kidding themselves.
Actually....a lot of libertarian/meet-up type groups have been organizing for the tea parties for some time. Republican party shills (Newt, Fox, etc....) have latched onto the phenomena, but mostly they're putting asto-turf over a grass roots kinda thing.
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I think this is an even better link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#30217426
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I think this is an even better link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#30217426
This is an excellent clip which shows the extent to which MSNBC v. Fox has all the makings of a WWF smackdown.

1) Obama is a socialist / fascist / insert your preferred term for the minister of a dirigiste economy here;

2) Republicans are a bunch of mendacious hypocrits who only oppose the Leviathan when they're out of power.

(1) and (2) above are not mutually exclusive possibilities.
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Tea Parties Forever

By PAUL KRUGMAN
This is a column about Republicans — and I’m not sure I should even be writing it.

Today’s G.O.P. is, after all, very much a minority party. It retains some limited ability to obstruct the Democrats, but has no ability to make or even significantly shape policy.
Beyond that, Republicans have become embarrassing to watch. And it doesn’t feel right to make fun of crazy people. Better, perhaps, to focus on the real policy debates, which are all among Democrats.

But here’s the thing: the G.O.P. looked as crazy 10 or 15 years ago as it does now. That didn’t stop Republicans from taking control of both Congress and the White House. And they could return to power if the Democrats stumble. So it behooves us to look closely at the state of what is, after all, one of our nation’s two great political parties.

One way to get a good sense of the current state of the G.O.P., and also to see how little has really changed, is to look at the “tea parties” that have been held in a number of places already, and will be held across the country on Wednesday. These parties — antitaxation demonstrations that are supposed to evoke the memory of the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution — have been the subject of considerable mockery, and rightly so.

But everything that critics mock about these parties has long been standard practice within the Republican Party.

Thus, President Obama is being called a “socialist” who seeks to destroy capitalism. Why? Because he wants to raise the tax rate on the highest-income Americans back to, um, about 10 percentage points less than it was for most of the Reagan administration. Bizarre.

But the charge of socialism is being thrown around only because “liberal” doesn’t seem to carry the punch it used to. And if you go back just a few years, you find top Republican figures making equally bizarre claims about what liberals were up to. Remember when Karl Rove declared that liberals wanted to offer “therapy and understanding” to the 9/11 terrorists?

Then there are the claims made at some recent tea-party events that Mr. Obama wasn’t born in America, which follow on earlier claims that he is a secret Muslim. Crazy stuff — but nowhere near as crazy as the claims, during the last Democratic administration, that the Clintons were murderers, claims that were supported by a campaign of innuendo on the part of big-league conservative media outlets and figures, especially Rush Limbaugh.

Speaking of Mr. Limbaugh: the most impressive thing about his role right now is the fealty he is able to demand from the rest of the right. The abject apologies he has extracted from Republican politicians who briefly dared to criticize him have been right out of Stalinist show trials. But while it’s new to have a talk-radio host in that role, ferocious party discipline has been the norm since the 1990s, when Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, became known as “The Hammer” in part because of the way he took political retribution on opponents.

Going back to those tea parties, Mr. DeLay, a fierce opponent of the theory of evolution — he famously suggested that the teaching of evolution led to the Columbine school massacre — also foreshadowed the denunciations of evolution that have emerged at some of the parties.

Last but not least: it turns out that the tea parties don’t represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They’re AstroTurf (fake grass roots) events, manufactured by the usual suspects. In particular, a key role is being played by FreedomWorks, an organization run by Richard Armey, the former House majority leader, and supported by the usual group of right-wing billionaires. And the parties are, of course, being promoted heavily by Fox News.

But that’s nothing new, and AstroTurf has worked well for Republicans in the past. The most notable example was the “spontaneous” riot back in 2000 — actually orchestrated by G.O.P. strategists — that shut down the presidential vote recount in Florida’s Miami-Dade County.

So what’s the implication of the fact that Republicans are refusing to grow up, the fact that they are still behaving the same way they did when history seemed to be on their side? I’d say that it’s good for Democrats, at least in the short run — but it’s bad for the country.

For now, the Obama administration gains a substantial advantage from the fact that it has no credible opposition, especially on economic policy, where the Republicans seem particularly clueless.

But as I said, the G.O.P. remains one of America’s great parties, and events could still put that party back in power. We can only hope that Republicans have moved on by the time that happens.
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I can't help but giggle a little anytime I read anything by Krugman these days.

Sing it like sesame street:

one of these things
doesn't belong here
one of these things
just isn't the same

(1) common sense, (2) logic, (3) Krugman, (4) keen powers of observation....

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here’s the thing: the G.O.P. looked as crazy 10 or 15 years ago as it does now. That didn’t stop Republicans from taking control of both Congress and the White House. And they could return to power if the Democrats stumble.
Anyone other than Paul Krugman, that is anyone with enough brain capacity to fog a mirror, might make a connection between the GOP looking 'crazy' 10 or 15 years ago and winning both Congress and the Whitehouse. The GOP opposed the mammoth expansion of federal power and this opposition appealed to lot's of people and therefore they made a lot of political headway....it's not too hard of a concept to understand unless a person is Keynesian and therefore accustomed to being unable to understand fairly obvious things.

Krugman, can't quite fathom why acting 'crazy' didn't stop them from winning a bunch of elections, surely (he must think) it was because Clinton didn't spend big enough or because he got a bj in the oval office or something....anyhoo....

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President Obama is being called a “socialist” who seeks to destroy capitalism. Why? Because he wants to raise the tax rate on the highest-income Americans back to, um, about 10 percentage points less than it was for most of the Reagan administration. Bizarre.
Horsecrap, and I was saying, Krugman is either a liar or a idiot but the two possibilities aren't mtually exclusive.

The Obamunist is being called a socialist because of the nationalization of industry and finance and the great extent to which his administration is obviously determined to micro-manage the economy, not because any isolated increase in marginal tax rates on a handful of people. This is a classic strawman logical fallacy -- a nobel prize winning economist can hardly be excused for making such an elementary mistake and therefore it's not unreasonable to surmise that he is being deliberately deceptive.....

....but in the case of Krugman, I'm willing to concede the possibility that he is just that stupid.
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public protest is as american as...well, bitching about things is truly one of our national traits.

go for it, although there should be some concern about the propensity of some of the attendees packing iron, if you know what I mean...and that seems to be a bit too combustible for my taste, especially if there's some alcohol served there. these aren't all tea totlers ya know.

it should be great theater actually, what with the free promotion undertaken by fox news that is sure to draw some of the more colorful fringe folks. look for those arguing about illegal immigrants\white supremist, gun rights and even the anti-internationalist "trilateral commission" people to be out in force.

I don't know what issue would be more commonly shared out there...everyone no matter which side of the aisle wants to pay less in taxes. everyone would like to see our government to spend less.

the truth however is that the people who are out there protesting these items don't really have or propose a solution. in fact, if it were possible to ask each and every one of them, it would be clear that the protestors want less taxes and less spending but they still want to receive the same level of government services, and the same if not more spending for the government programs they fervently support.

the proverbial conundrum.
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The solution is quite simple...Cut Back on spending, to meet the budget of the money coming in.

It's what we do as a family...my income drops, my spending drops...I don't borrow in anticipation of more money down the road, I simply change my lifestyle to match my income.

I would love to finish some projects around the house...but those projects are being delayed because I have less income...I've adjusted.

The same should go for our government.

Obviously, regardless of which side of the aisle we are on, there has been wasteful spending (Democrats and Republicans alike). The current solution to raise more taxes and to increase spending is the craziest idea ever...and to think the Democrats are getting away with it.

Stop the bailouts, let these companies fail...let new companies and opportunities take their place...let people adjust to lower incomes and then we can all move on with life.

We once functioned as a society, living off the land...sure technology and industry have taken us away from this basic survival function, but there is nothing that indicates we couldn't regroup and find ways to survive as we reform our nation.

It's called living within our means...guess what, the current Democratic administration is doing its best to MAX out everyone's credit card...thus creating a "Dependant State" thus removing freedom from the people and making the Government the one with Absolute power.

No wonder people throw out the words of Socialism and Communism...that's what is taking place and it appears as though their is a rather large group who is allowing this to happen.

Maybe the people will get fed up enough to kick both Democrats and Republicans OUT OF OFFICE, with a return to the Values of President Reagan and the Values of our founding fathers!!!
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Update for those of you planning on the Richardson Tea Party:

Just want to thank all of you for your enthusiastic and overwhelming response to the Richardson Tea Party. I'm looking forward to seeing all of you on Wednesday, April 15th. Here's some updated plans, information and reminders.



· Bring a Sign or Flag

· Dress Patriotic or wear a Tea Party t-shirt (if you want)

· Assemble between 11:30 and 11:45 at the fountain at Richardson City Hall

· By noon - lineup on the sidewalk (with our signs) along Arapaho, Service Road of 75 and facing the Post Office

· We plan on staying an hour

· Please look around as you leave - let's be sure we don't leave a mess



I can't emphasize this enough - Remember This Is A Peaceful Protest! The Richardson Police Department has been notified and will be patrolling the area for our protection.



Please read the following, it has our focus and reminders:TAX DAY TEA PARTY

TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY



The President and the U.S. Congress have gone on a spending and debt spree that the country cannot afford. As a result, a spontaneous grassroots movement is emerging from every corner of the nation with a message for Congress and the president. Stop spending us into an inevitable spiral of debt and higher taxes…now!



We are here to show our concern over frivolous government programs that eat away at our basic freedoms. This is non-partisan. We are tired of all elected officials in any party who think the government should spend more and more of our hard-earned money.



This is a peaceful protest. Please Do Not:



· Go out into the street

· Wave our signs in front of cars by leaving the sidewalk

· Block entrances to driveways

· Engage with anyone heckling, shouting, or counter-protesting



Please join Mark Davis of WBAP and friends at the Dallas Tea Party.



Dallas City Hall

5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
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Bunch of lazy Republicans out protesting on a weekday while the rest of us are hard at work...

Get a job, hippies!!!



(boy, how the tables have turned...)
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Get a job, hippies!!!



(boy, how the tables have turned...)
Protesting on a lunch hour...back to the office, then out to another protest over dinner. HMMMM imagine that, Working and Protesting...we can get both done...

We didn't even have to take a day off for some inaguration...

So much for the notion of laziness...leave that one on the Lefty-Loons side!!!

Then again, I sure do waste a ton of time on these boards...
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory185.html

About Those Conservative Tax Protesters

by Anthony Gregory


It’s wonderful that rightwingers are making noise all around America through the Tea Party tax protests. We must remember, however, that this April 15th we are still suffering the burden of Bush’s leviathan government. We are filing for 2008, the last year of Republican rule. We are still and will long be enduring the cost of Bush’s wars, spending and bailouts. We should be wary of letting the Republican establishment co-opt the grassroots, anti-government spirit of these protests and turn them into a platform to shill for GOP statism.

For eight years, Republican protest of income taxation was scant. Some conservatives complained quietly about Bush’s domestic welfare spending, but all in all they were apologists for the regime we are still paying for. They certainly did not talk about the state as their enemy, as many of them do today. The quickness of their transition to opposition rhetoric has been staggering.

"Tyranny vs. liberty," "the collective vs. the individual," "the state vs. you" – this is suddenly the language of the conservative movement. Well, that is not quite right: The conservatives have still maintained their excitement about national greatness and war.

The contradiction is a wonder to behold. In one breath, they talk about the fundamental violations of natural rights and constitutional law that modern American statism represents. In the next breath, they decry the president for being insufficiently enthusiastic about American imperialism and the national security state. He is too soft on foreigners and not proud enough of the history of the US war machine – this is still a key rightwing criticism of Obama, right alongside the contradictory claim that Obama puts love of the national government ahead of individual rights.

Conservatives seem to define tyranny as losing to the Democrats, just as Jon Stewart has said. And so now they echo the rhetoric of the American colonists who stood up for independence, even as they still speak the language of empire. Sean Hannity and others of his kind say the "conservative underground" and Tea Party revolts are not just about opposing socialism and high taxes – they are also about reclaiming "American Exceptionalism," the idea that the American national warfare state is just and good, even holy, and that we oppressed patriots will not countenance a president insufficiently enamored of American imperial glory. Presumably, as today’s conservatives see it, the American colonists dumping British tea were also upset that the British Crown was inadequately boastful of English Exceptionalism, cutting spending on the British empire and coddling the enemies of England’s occupying armies. (Actually, there is one fair parallel here: the American nationalists wanted the French-Indian war, and then didn’t want to pay for it. Same American nationalism, different war.)

The rightwing criticism of Obama’s dovishness is not just ironic but, unlike the criticism of his collectivism, it is 100% off the mark. Obama is increasing military spending, going well beyond Bush in arguing for secretive, unchecked presidential power, widening the war into Pakistan and redirecting military resources toward uses of active belligerence. He is commissioning fewer Cold War weapons so as to build more weapons for actual use in today’s conflict. He is not calling it a war on terrorism but is ramping up the policies, at home and in most theaters abroad. He is a more pragmatic and thus more effective warmonger than the neocons. A New Left peacenik he is not.

So the right hates taxes but loves the wars and rightwing projects that make them necessary. Furthermore, their government under Bush was so enormous that it could not finance itself on taxation alone – much of his warmongering and central planning was funded through borrowing, even as his Ownership Society relied on inflationary easy credit. The depression we face resulted mostly from these policies and every single horrible thing Obama is doing had its precedents in the Bush era. Indeed, the Republicans made such a mess that a full Democratic takeover and move toward socialism were practically inevitable.

Looking further into the rightwing contradiction, we see more paradoxes abound. The liberals in power want to use the No-Fly List to disarm Americans. Conservatives are horrified. Rahm Emanuel says that suspected terrorists should obviously not be allowed to have guns. The rightwing, which a year ago trusted the government to define who was and was not a terrorist and strip him of his freedoms of speech, due process, privacy and travel, thinks the idea of using the same government determinations to take away Americans’ guns is tyranny itself.

Conservatives complain about government listing them as potential violent agitators due to their anti-tax, pro-gun politics, but mostly defended the Bush government as it spied on antiwar activists and created the fusion centers that now associate conservative ideas with dangerous militias. The conservatives worry about Obama putting the UN above the American system of government, yet they thought a UN mandate was plenty good reason to go to war with Iraq, regardless of having no official Congressional declaration of war. The conservatives fear national service, but for much of the last decade, serving the nation-state and especially its enforcement agencies was considered the height of patriotism. They now say Obama’s social planning will fail in America; for years they championed U.S. economic planning and public works projects in Iraq.

This April 15, Americans have to prove to the government that they paid their taxes for 2008, to fund Bush’s empire and corporatism. Perhaps this is why conservatives want to emphasize not just their anti-tax rhetoric, but the areas where Obama’s current policies stray from their own program. And here, most of what conservatives say is either disingenuous, given their previous sycophancy for the profligate and invasive Bush regime, or a monstrous call for even more bloodshed.

It is a tragedy that today, when liberals have taken over and have a thousand plans to micromanage domestic life, nationalize our children, socialize finance and industry, institute a global New Deal and enlist the whole country in left-liberal national-socialism, the red-state fascists have become the dominant opposition, stealing half of our rhetoric while maintaining so much of the hypocrisy and statism of the Bush era. Instead of America Firsters, they are like they were out of power during the Cold War, bashing the president for being too soft on the enemy. Instead of upholding a model of free enterprise, they continue to defend the Bush legacy, ignore the depth of the financial crisis and refuse to put nearly enough blame for it on the Republicans – when most of it belongs to them. Instead of rediscovering the Constitution, they have only rediscovered the half of it they like. Instead of truly embracing individual liberty in all its implications, they still want the federal government to mold society to their liking, punish vice, maintain their favored demographics and police the planet.

Bush created the biggest bubble ever in the name of free enterprise and waged two wars with potentially cataclysmic implications for a century to come. He was like a Hoover and Wilson mixed in one, and by refusing to reject Bush conservatism as strongly as Obama liberalism, today’s conservative movement is still more than a let-down as opposition to the Obama nightmare. Until conservatives adopt libertarianism, the love of peace and freedom regardless of party, they can only be taken so seriously when they complain that taxes are too high.

Thankfully, there are more Americans than ever who eschew the statism of both right and left, who seek liberty, peace and free markets. Those who resent tax day and are searching for real solutions can join our ranks, rejecting the conservative as well as liberal policies that have gotten us into this mess.

April 15, 2009

Anthony Gregory [send him mail] is a research analyst at the Independent Institute and editor-in-chief of the Campaign for Liberty. He lives in Berkeley, California. See his webpage for more articles and personal information.

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oh, so the protests mentioned above are happening on city property, with the help of the local police force to keep order for the gathering....

and all of this while the protestors are screaming for the lowering of taxes and decresed spending.....

which tax revenue is being paid out by the cities to provide the police force during the protests, and the additional expense to the community to clean up after the protest event....

uh, doesn't this all seem contradictory to keeping our city's expenses low? in fact, these citizen protests are costing each city unexpected expense/money!

they'll need to increase taxes to pay for all this protesting...
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What percentage of "Republicans" are out there protesting?

Why spend your time trying to pick apart and contradict such a meaningless, minuscule group?

Who cares what they're doing today...
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Or better yet - what percentage of American citizens actually believe that protesting makes a difference in this day & age??? (because you're basically asking the people who created our problems to fix them, ESPECIALLY in the case of taxation...)

A more effective course of action would be to stop paying your taxes, raise an army, march on Washington D.C. and start collecting heads (otherwise STFU - nobody wants to hear your bellyaching, especially not the government!)
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oh, so the protests mentioned above are happening on city property, with the help of the local police force to keep order for the gathering....
The local police are not at the event to help and protect the protestors, they are there to protect government workers and property from harm by the protestors.

See here for how police forces help and protect protestors...
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Or better yet - what percentage of American citizens actually believe that protesting makes a difference in this day & age??? (because you're basically asking the people who created our problems to fix them, ESPECIALLY in the case of taxation...)
I don't....I think it's an abject waste of time. I hope they get a little pub for grins, but there's next to zero chance it will accomplish anything.
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The best protection your tax dollars can buy (and this was essentially a SUCCESSFUL protest!)

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police protecting the protestors....

Selma, civil rights marches

kent state

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I wonder why it was banned? (seems like the government would get behind this message...)
There was quite a bit in the cartoon suggesting that its' better to save one's money rather than spend it frivously. We certainly can't poison kids' minds with such garbage.
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I often notice a sharp double-standard from the mods in the political forum - why raise an issue about links with Ribosoma, but not with Dude1394? (because he NEVER posts links to his re-posted rants...)
A. That's just simply not true. If he posts a snippet he'll sometimes leave off the link. But anytime he posts a large, full length article it generally going to have a link.

B. I don't read every thread. In fact I read very few threads in the political forums these days.

C. If you really think that I give someone a harder time based on their political standing then you have an infantile outlook on life that I do not share.
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