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Tax Day Escambia Tea Party To Protest Government Spending
April 15, 2009
A modern day revolution of sorts will sweep the nation today as tea parties are held across the nation, including one in Escambia County, to peacefully protest against government spending.
The tea parties are intended as grassroots protests against government spending. On December 16, 1773, a group of American colonists, in protest to the British government’s Tea Act (a tax on tea), hijacked a British ship and dumped the cargo into Boston Harbor. This act of defiance sent a bold statement to the British government that colonists in America would no longer accept the burdens of excessive taxation from a distant land, without representation.
The peaceful demonstrations planned for Escambia County and the nation will protest against President Barack Obama’s economic policies, bailouts and stimulus packages. It’s no coincidence that the tea parties were scheduled for today — April 15 — the day federal taxes are due. Nationwide, the tea parties are expected to be the largest tax day protest in American history with more than 300 events scheduled nationwide.
The Pensacola Tea Party will take place in the University Mall parking lot from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Visit taxdayteaparty.com for more information.
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7 Responses to “Tax Day Escambia Tea Party To Protest Government Spending”
I just returned from the tea party and it was a great sucess!! Over 3,000 people!!
Yes, it has stopped raining for now.
I understand your point and agree that government that is not working or un-necessary needs to be cut and some programs are too big, but it is not just Democrats that do this, as you pointed out earlier.
Have a good one; have to go.
Has it finally stopped raining down there????
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
President Obama
At any rate this protest is not about FDR’s policies, it is about bigger & bigger government and more & more taxes without the politians that WE elected representing the majority of the people. Our congressmen and senators are more interested in pleasing the lobbist and our Presidents liberal policies than they are in pleasing “we the people”. It’s time they hear from us. The liberals don’t mind speaking their mind, now it’s time for conservatives to be heard.
The is a book that reviewed our government growth and it foreign policy in the 20th century to now and it was WWII and the Cold War that were the events that saw the largest growth in our government; The basic premise is on our empire building and its negative impact on our country. As for FDR’s policies, there are those that disagree and said they helped and that the start of WWII just made a bigger push by the public sector to put people to work. Those against usually are just looking at some pure free market ideas but forget the programs did put people to work. Without those programs it would have been much, much worse.
But on FDR’s policies, to show the debate, a professor at Wake Forest asks economists if they worked; his response was a 49% to 51% split. So this debate can rage on and on.
These tax day tea parties did not just start. They have been occuring since 2006, protesting Bush policies. They have simply grown in light of all the bailouts and the unread simulus pacakage. As for FDR’s new deal economic, historians almost all agree that it did nothing to end the depression. It did however start a cycle of dependence on the federal goverment i.e. welfare and social security. This protest is not just about taxation, it is to protest the slow loss of our freedoms, the freedom of speech and the right to peaceful assembly being two of them. I will be there to have my voice heard.
Rings hollow when Republicans allowed Bush and company to run up huge debts on his wrongful invasion of Iraq. The cost to be estimated at 1 to 2 trillion dollars.
As for the stimulus, are we to sit back and let the ideal of maintaining a pure “free market” with no intervention to slow the impact of the recession? Are programs that put money at the bottom of the economy wrong? Was FDR’s New Deal wrong to put people to work so they could put food on the table? Ask the generation that grew up during the Depression if they would have preferred the government to maintain Hoover’s policies of not interfering with the gyrations of the market during an extreme condition. My grandparents refers to that time gave me the impression that people in the region had nothing and could have literally starved to death. I realize not all of Obama’s policies are to my liking, but doing nothing when unemployment will hit highs not seen since the Depression is only hurting ourselves.