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Fear of increasing taxes to compensate for enormous deficits in the federal budget have prompted a number of tea parties, of late. What's really going on, here?

Paul Krugman of the New York Times is very cynical about this (surprise, surprise!).
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04.../13krugman.html?_r=2
He even gets in a couple of shots at Rush Limbaugh, who has had nothing to do with the parties.

Most interestingly, hundreds of thousands of protestors on April 15th (tax day) received hardly any press.

The next official tea party day is July 4th.
- see http://www.teapartyday.com/
The rationale:
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Are you fed up with a Congress and a president who:

vote for a $500 billion tax bill without even reading it?
are spending trillions of borrowed dollars, leaving a debt our great-grandchildren will be paying?
consistently give special interest groups billions of dollars in earmarks to help get themselves re-elected?
want to take your wealth and redistribute it to others?
punish those who practice responsible financial behavior and reward those who do not?
admit to using the financial hurt of millions as an opportunity to push their political agenda?
run up trillions of dollars of debt and then sell that debt to countries such as China?
want government controlled health care?
want to take away the right to vote with a secret ballot in union elections?
refuse to stop the flow of millions of illegal immigrants into our country?
appoint a defender of child pornography to the Number 2 position in the Justice Department?
want to force doctors and other medical workers to perform abortions against their will?
want to impose a carbon tax on your electricity, gas and home heating fuels?
want to reduce your tax deductibility for charitable gifts?
take money from your family budget to pay for their federal budget?

That sounds reason enough for protest -- as much reason as thousands of Europeans had to protest the recent G20 conference.

What does the Obama admin think about this?
quote:
"The thing that bewilders me is this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people. So I think the tea bags should be directed elsewhere because he certainly understands the burden that people face," David Axelrod said Sunday.

- http://www.foxnews.com/politic...y-anger-misdirected/

Actually, 95% of the American people don't pay taxes; actually, only about 50% do, and a small percentage of those pay aroun 75% of all taxes. With spin like that, one can understand the motivation for tea parties.
 
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