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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:
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?
- 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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