Locals Join Tea Party Protest Against Escalating Government Spending

» Bud Stuart on 04.05.09 @ 07:27 AM

Congratulations and many thanks to all of you who participated in this taxation protest. I wish I could have been there. What we need to do is develop a vaccine for OPM disease (Other Peoples Money) that all politicians seem to contract immediately upon being elected to any office, local, state or federal. The vaccine would then be mandatory before they could take office.

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» Zabrina on 04.05.09 @ 09:03 AM

Wonderful news! Keep up the great work!

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» Tom Paine on 04.05.09 @ 09:42 AM

Excuse me, but there were at least 1000 people there.

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» Jay Ballou on 04.05.09 @ 12:49 PM

Excuse me, but there were way less than 1000 people there, most of whom are abysmally ignorant. Unless you’re making $250,000 or more NET, your income tax not only wasn’t increased, but was probably decreased—that’s the case for almost everyone there, who were not exactly the cream of society’s crop. And the Bush administration required the CEO’s of AIG and Fanny Mae to resign in order for them to get government funds, so there’s nothing new there. And the reason for the financial collapse was failure to regulate “financial instruments” like derivatives and credit swaps. When there’s a lot of short-term gain to be made, someone will go for it even if it means collapse of the market.

BTW, participants in the Boston Tea Party actually took real risks as they threw into the harbor tea belonging to the British East India Company—a private corporation.  The founding fathers hated and feared the power of corporations above all else—something not understood by those people out on the street with their make believe getups.

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» Dan on 04.05.09 @ 01:48 PM

Probably weren’t many young people there. Instead we had grudgingly paid the newly higher sales tax for beer to be consumed at a huge beach party - celebrating the joy of life and the beauty of our surroundings.
Economics 101: there are private goods and there are public goods (clean air, national defense). Capitalism is efficient in dealing with private goods, and horrible in dealing with public goods.
If you can afford to buy a Revolutionary War costume and fly in from Oregon for one day - you obviously aren’t hurting that much for money.
By all means, push for government efficiency, push for personal freedoms. But as GOPers like to say, freedom isn’t free, and the rich have the most to lose from a sickly, poorly educated mob.

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» Proud Hispanic Republican on 04.05.09 @ 04:40 PM

To KDT,
Many of us that were there are average Americans, and further more, hard working Americans, who pay our taxes on time and provide a home that WE know we can afford which is paid the old fashion way, WE EARNED IT!
Socialism doesn’t work!
Signed,
Proud Hispanic Republican

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» BDS on 04.05.09 @ 05:56 PM

Wow even a Tea party brings out comments from people still afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome…

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» sbnative on 04.05.09 @ 08:12 PM

Taxed Enough Already! And it’s about time those of us who PAY most of the taxes start to just say NO.
NO MORE TAXES. NO MORE BAILOUTS. 

Sign seen at the protest:
Income Tax FED: 35.00%
Income Tax CA: 10.30%
SS & Medicare: 7.65%
Sales Tax: 8.75% (for now)
GRAND TOTAL = 61.70%

And that’s not counting DMV, Property Taxes, Gas & Utility company taxes, AD NAUSEUM…

And if news commentators NOW say that Nancy Pelosi/Congress is running the government (not Obama) why wouldn’t the same be true for Bush? BOTH PARTIES WERE/ARE both parties are HOGS at the trough spending OPM (other people’s money). And oh yeah, the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) provided the massive amount of mortage funds that got turned into weapons of financial mass destruction. And THAT came out of a Democratic Administration. But let’s not let facts get in the way of rhetoric! Heavens No! Check out:
http://www.pjtv.com/video/PJTV_Daily/Klavan_on_the_Culture:_Shut_Up/1612/

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» Micha Elyi of Sacramento on 04.05.09 @ 09:52 PM

Blaming “Sacramento” is a cheap cop-out for the SoCal and Bay Area Democrats who sent so many “tax and spend impulses” there with their votes.  Take responsibility for your own toxic waste and stop dumping it on our town.

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» Meg on 04.06.09 @ 04:29 AM

I really appreciate seeing so many like minded people willing to stick their necks out to protest the decidedly UNfair taxes.  If one wage earner is going to be taxed, all should be taxed.  As a larger portion of our population is tax-free, of course they are going to vote to continue this practice, at the expense of those who are taking the risks to earn more.  When all citizens are taxed then all will be concerned with how the taxpayers’ contributions are spent.  Don’t tell me how wonderful this situation is when I am paying and you are “getting”.  When is the next event?

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» sbnative (the original) on 04.06.09 @ 07:00 AM

To EUGENIA: I certainly hope you get an accountant to help you with YOUR taxes… if you PAY any. Grossly inaccurate response… just thought I’d mention it! But don’t let the facts get in the way of your rhetoric.

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» Polarization on 04.06.09 @ 08:13 AM

I see where Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades. Having read the comments from his supporters on this site, I can see why.

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» Laughing out loud on 04.06.09 @ 10:00 AM

You have to laugh! Where were these people when the Republican controlled government went from surpluses (achieved under a Democrat) to record deficits?

Now you care all of the sudden!?!? Hypocritical opportunism.

Taxation is unfair because it is being increased for those who make more than a quarter of a million? And it is NOW unfair that poor people don’t pay so you are protesting… but wait these people were under-taxed under Bush as well, so where were you?

Obama as a polarizing figure? After the previous President? You write utter nonsense.

After many of you actually start making sense you may even earn enough credibility to criticize. Until then, I’ll keep laughing.

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» AN50 on 04.06.09 @ 11:17 AM

There goes Less is More again wigging out and using my name. Tsk, tsk, get a life. Try one as an adult while yer at it.
Many of the attendees at the tea party were in fact liberals who find bailing out billion dollar failures with our taxes as repugnant as conservatives do. It was quite refreshing to see people of differing political opinions at least united on this topic, too bad so many saw it as a means of furthering our differences.

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» Patriot on 04.07.09 @ 05:59 AM

Wishing W was back in the White House!  At least with him we knew what we got.  Keep America safe, honesty, and intergrity! Man with honor! “Trasnparency” is a lie told to the American people, Obama and his administration did not tell the truth!

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» Throw the liberals out on 04.07.09 @ 03:54 PM

Tax and spend liberals have destroyed our young country, and you can make a change.

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» Beat it, libs on 04.14.09 @ 06:31 PM

Gotta love how every lib has a comment about Bush to distract from the poor policy direction of the current administration that is drawing tens of thousands to these tea parties.  Even better are the ones spewing campaign rhetoric of higher taxes only targeting those earning over $250k.

You think cigarette taxes, cap and trade, business taxes, sales taxes, death taxes, AMT, capital gains, etc. will only affect the ultra rich?  And that’s only the tip of a very large and wasteful iceberg.

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» Skipper on 04.18.09 @ 10:32 AM

Big Surprise Blank-faced o’BUMMER Kool-Aid Drinkers!

  There were plenty of young & Non-rich people at the tea parties-(At My Ohio Tea Party Protest Attendees & Speakers were ALL Local Folks!), MYSELF, included!
 
  Oh, and “Dan”:
 
  The ones who “grudgingly paid the newly higher sales tax for beer to be consumed at a huge beach party - celebrating the joy of life and the beauty of our surroundings”, probably ARE doing just that because the IDIOTS never investigated Hussein/Megalomaniac/Obama BEFORE they voted—-They just Swallowed the “We are the World” Happy/Crappy Luv-Fest Pabulum they were fed, then went right back to their “Beautiful” Somnambulism!

  Tea Parties are NOT merely Pro-Republican/Anti-Democrat, They ARE Pro-Individualism….and that is the REAL target of All the POWER-Crazed “Controllers”!!!

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» George on 09.01.09 @ 10:49 AM

No lobbyests in government, all bills will be posted on the internet for 5 days for the public to read before signing, tax breaks to 95% of tax payers, I will go over spending bills line by line, no pork, etc.  Tax cheats, self avowed communists and radicals as Czars (who approves the Czars, who controls them, what powers do they have?).  How can we believe any statements from the White House with a credibility record like this?

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