Comments on: Tea Party Protests Rally Against Taxes

Many Spent Independence Day Speaking Out Against Federal Spending

[jon2012-2009]

Sorry, I still think the whole idea behind tea party protests is misguided. There's always a role for government to play in any modern society and taxes support its functions. Call these taxes the people's investment in a government that is democratic, open, honest, efficient and committed to the social goals of our time. Taxes, like government spending, are tools to regulate the economy and make it productive for everyone's benefit.

[COT2]

Well said.

[ubrew12]

In 1977 the wealthiest 0.1% of Americans made on average 20 times the income of the poorest 90% of Americans.

Today, that ratio is 80 times. (The Economist Mag, April 10, 2009: and that is hardly a liberal rag)

We are not overtaxed. Those who say so do the bidding of the wealthiest people on the planet, who had no small role in creating the casino capitalism that has just broken the American economy, revealing startlingly to ourselves just how smashed our manufacturing sector has been for some time.

[ubrew12]

In 1977 the wealthiest 0.1% of Americans made on average 20 times the income of the poorest 90% of Americans.

Today, that ratio is 80 times.

We are not overtaxed. Those who say so do the bidding of the wealthiest people on the planet, who had no small role in creating the casino capitalism that has just broken the American economy, revealing startlingly to ourselves just how smashed our manufacturing base has been for some time.

[COT2]

Ok, let's think about this. Not too many TEA Party folks are totally against taxes, but rather against run away taxes and spending. Taxed Enough Already means we don't need MORE taxes, but that the government needs to spend more wisely. While taxes provide for a "billion things we need", our government also spends on a billion things we don't. Be careful assuming that anybody who disagrees with you is "uneducated or brainwashed". Many I know in the TEA Party movement are NOT Republicans, and did complain when Bush ran up deficits - that's why they voted for "Change" last year - but aren't seeing it. Many protestors are protesting what they see as a deaf government from both parties, and for decades beginning with the 60's - it's finally just reached the point where they can't stand it anymore. Please refrain from categorically insulting any who have an opinion different from your own of how their money should be spent.

[incog-nito]

Unless new jobs in both the private and public sectors are created, the economy will not recover. The stimulus bill will help create some jobs TEMPORARILY, until the money runs out. There is no indication jobs are coming back to the private sector anytime soon. There is EVERY indication that jobs continue to be moved overseas, and that any new jobs in the U.S. pay much less than they did before.

Conclusion: There will be no recovery. On the contrary, the economy will continue its inexorable downward slide for the foreseeable future.

[ffoulkes-2009]

...unless something is done with the laws here that invite industry back rather than pushing it aside.

[oldowan]

"You're stuid."

"No. You're wrong."

"You're so stupid!"

"No. We disagree."

"You are stupid. I know because I am smart. You are SO stupid."

"Right..."

"See? Really, really stupid."

"Uh, bye."

"What a stupid thing to say. "

[democracy1]

No, Kim didn't launch 7 bottle rockets that fizzled out into the Sea of japan on anyone's prior watch, but Al Qeada wasn't able to take down 3 buildings at the WTC along with the Pentagon on anyone else's watch before GWB, either.

Got a point?

[mercywarren]

Thanks for clarifying - saves me the time and effort. I am so sick of these loons making comments that are so idiotic when they have NO CLUE what we are protesting about.

All they would have to do is read the signs that the protesters are carrying - there is such a diversity of complaints. I can only come to the conclusion that either these loons can not read or their comprehension level is about a 0.

One poster here that bashed the "Tea Baggers" as he labeled us, even goes on to complain about the very same issues WE are complaining about. Talk about comprehension deficit.

[joe_x-2009]

The TEA Party "movement" may have a little more credibility if they had held their first event during the GWB Administration's 1st 6 years, when the Republican Congress was spending money like drunken sailors on shoreleave. Most, if not all, of the problems the AFA (umbrella organization of TEA)mentions either were started or greatly exacerbated by the George W. Bush administration. The TEA parties when seen this way are a not-so-well disguised attempt to arouse public passions against Obama--for problems that he inherited from Bush. The 4th of July is a time to celebrate our freedom and our way of life, not really a time to disingenuously protest the leadership of our Commander in Chief.

[mercywarren]

To rednomo: If YOU had a clue, you would know that one of the Patriots mantra's IS that it is NOT just about Republicans and Democrats. And the very things that you mention in your post ARE the things we are trying to fight.

[mercywarren]

Hello????? If bailouts are such a wonderful idea, why are small business owners NOT bailed out? Duh? By your premise, EVERY failed company should be bailed out, all the time, everywhere.

[mercywarren]

Only one thing to say to the loons from the left: You are now outnumbered, we will not be shut up anymore by your rants and name calling. There is not one of you that have a plausible argument about what we stand for. You just keep up your frothing at the mouth, and while you are all in your rabid demise we will conquer and we will take back our country and we will revert it to what it was intended to be by the Founding Fathers. Your period of trying to shut us up and shut us down is over. And you can just bet this comes from ALL sides of ALL parties - it is just you rabid loons that are being excluded, and trust me there are a whole lot more of us than you - you have just made it look like there are more with your rabid attacks. Perhaps it would be best if you all just moved to Venezuela now, you would be much happier under Hugo - and please take all your loony cohorts, Sean Penn, Janeane Garofalo, Tim Robbins, etc. with you. We certainly don't need them either.

[ubrew12]

And now, a short break from our regularly scheduled programming of rightwingers wailing about the return of COMMUNISM in America. A simple statistic:

Since 1980, the share of the nations income going to her richest 1% tripled, while the share going to her poorest 90% fell by 20% (or one-fifth). This means that in order for the wealthiest 1% of Americans to triple their income in the last 30 years, the ordinary working American gets paid, on average, $10000 less a year today than he would have been paid in 1980 proportions.

And now, back to the dangers of COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, AND ALL THOSE OTHER -ISMS rightwing America works overtime to save us from!!

[actornaught]

The whole messiah thing is a limbaugh-ism.

He wanted the part...

[Solarrays247]

by darthcheney345 July 4, 2009 10:00 PM PDT
by Solarrays247 July 4, 2009 5:24 PM PDT
Ditto!
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What a bunch of dittoheads.


Sore loser?

[jon2012-2009]

IThoughtItWasFunny2, I don't know you guys are capable of political analysis. You have high school diploma?

[jon2012-2009]

While many of the signs at the protests blame President Barack Obama for government overspending, the people CBS News talked to were just as upset with Republicans.

Liberals are allergic to facts.
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Let's see. Republicans think creationism is science, global warming is propaganda, WMDs justified going to Iraq and Bush did not lie about it, the U.S. health care system is the best in the world, we'll find enough oil for U.S. needs by drilling every square inch of our territory, markets are efficient and don't need to be regulated. Oh yeah, sounds like the Republicans know what they're talking about.

[South-of-Heaven]

Caribou Madonna missed the Parties?
Shame on her, where was she?
Too Busy Quitting her day job?

[jon2012-2009]

These right-wingers try to attach The Messiah on Obama as if trying to deal with the country's serious challenges, exacerbated by Republicans if not in fact brought on by them, is a bad thing. What nonsense. At least when people used to refer to Bush as the Boy Emperor, the name resonated both here and abroad and the scorn appropriate. Typical of conservative imagination to find the dots forming connections without the support of evidence.

[fleabag75]

(I like being a socialist. Give it a try,,,,,,,, you'll see what the big boys have been enjoying at your cost)