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A Hot Cup of TEA | United Liberty | Free Market – Individual …

March 10th, 2010

Recently, the TEA Party movement celebrated its first anniversary. At first the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party activists were dismissed as a few grumpy right-wingers upset that America elected a black president. … We got tax cuts (good) but no corresponding spending cuts (bad), so the deficits increased. We got the Bridge to Nowhere, an addiction to pork spending and the largest expansion in welfare since LBJ with the Medicare Part D program, the first bailout and …

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RealClearPolitics – Tea Party Target Should Be Big Biz, Not Big Govt

March 10th, 2010

When I listen to the Tea Party tax protesters, I hear that they’re mad as hell. They’re angry about deficit spending, and they believe that government is undermining free enterprise for the benefit of international elites. …

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ABC News: Anti-Tax Tea Parties Protest Tax & Spend Policies

March 7th, 2010

Today’s nationwide ” tea parties ” — massive anti- tax and anti-spending demonstrations timed for tax day — are developing into a nationwide test of online organizing among fiscal conservatives. “Without Facebook and Twitter and the …

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A Real Tea Party Worthy Amendment to the Constitution | Erick's blog

March 4th, 2010

Tea – Party amendment is meant to limit financial carnage from spending-drunk politicians who have lost their moral center. Might even get passed if the Pols think it will make the Tea – Party go away. … A lower rate would almost certainly result in a faster-growing GDP, which would imply that what we really need to do is to postpone our gratification just a bit, until we get the tax receipts to do what we want, instead of borrowing from our grandchildren to have it NOW. …

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Old South Meeting House – Tea Party News: 25 percent of gas-tax …

March 4th, 2010

Tea Party issues: Bailouts, Spending, Taxes, Big Government, Health Care Reform, Global Warming, Gun Control, Elections, etc…The Old South Meeting House is where the patriots met to plan the Boston Tea Party . …

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MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Goes Off On, Then Cuts Mic Of Tea Party …

March 2nd, 2010

The tea parties are driven by concerns about out-of-control government spending, rising deficits, looming tax increases and an intrusive federal government. But MSNBC can’t let people hear any of that, because it would detract from …

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Consumer Spending Up? Not Really | St. Louis Tea Party

March 2nd, 2010

Let’s go back to Mish’s state sales tax analysis. Mish points to New York, Indiana, Texas, and Tennessee. Each state shows a sharp decline in sales tax revenue year over year. People are spending less at fewer remaining stores, …

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Tea Party at Perrysburg: Mayor Bell proposes add'l tax on sporting …

March 2nd, 2010

Tea Party at Perrysburg: Perrysburg, Ohio, United States: We are a non-partisan group of Northwest Ohio citizens who seek to restrain government spending and reach. We encourage legislators to adhere to the Constitution of the United …

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Will the Tea Party Stop Funding for Community Colleges? | Top …

March 1st, 2010

Have you heard about the Tea Party activists in the news? They’re the folks who have been protesting excessive government spending and taxation, but some college advocates have been worrying that their anti- tax stance could endanger …

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First UK Tea Party event « Roger Helmer MEP

March 1st, 2010

Following on from the amazingly successful grass roots Tea Party campaign in the US, Dan made the case not only for reduced government spending, and for spending cuts rather than tax increases to address the deficit, but also for proper …

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nrc.nl – International – Features – Tea Party prominent: Palin not …

February 28th, 2010

But now he has made his way back into the limelight as one of the faces of the Tea Party movement. In the course of last year, anti- tax protestors took hold of the public debate on government spending and healthcare. …

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tax.com: Tea Party Logic vs. Republican Opportunism

February 22nd, 2010

We will have to have severe cutbacks in social security, medicare, medicaid, defense and domestic spending if we balance the budget without tax increases.

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CANDIDATES & ELECTED OFFICIALS ADDRESS TEA PARTY RALLY IN EL CAJON …

February 22nd, 2010

While many in the TEA party movement are interested primarily in tax and spending issues, the movement has attracted some who call for a return to conservative values on social issues. Other speakers at Saturday’s rally addressed issues …

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TEA Party Targets

February 18th, 2010

Anti- tax ” tea party ” organizers are delivering one million tea bags to a Washington, D.C., park Wednesday morning – to promote protests across the country by people they say are fed up with high taxes and excess spending. …

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The Hunting of the Snark: Boogie Down

February 16th, 2010

Throw liberal anti-spending (not anti- tax ) tea parties . Tea parties with free giveaways and free hot dogs and sodas and coffee. Use better celebrities and speakers, better decorations, better music and media, and better transportation …

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Hot Air » Blog Archive » What Glenn Reynolds saw at the Tea Party

February 13th, 2010

The Tea Party convention provided a kind of Rorschach test for pundits on the Right and Left, who mainly saw their own hopes and fears reflected back from the event. Glenn’s fairly unique perspective and history makes his take on what he saw at the …. The provision will require any new spending or tax cut to be offset by tax increases or spending cuts elsewhere. Mr Obama has praised the new tax commitment, saying it is how a responsible family or business manages money. …

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Mayor Graham's View: PR: Article: Tea Party attacks Bill Owens

February 13th, 2010

Its always a good thing to have a third party rough up your opponent for you and if that’s the Tea Party folks, the so be it. Spending and deficits will be a dominant issue in 2010 and Rep. Bill Owens is in league with Team Pelosi. … The anti soda tax rally in Ogdensburg on Thursday showed me there are people who in this year are motivated to vote….but comments on this blog in favor of this silly tax tell me a campaign against spending and taxes is not a winning issue …

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Providence Tax Day Tea Party: Neil Cavuto Interviews RI Tea Party …

February 12th, 2010

Providence Tax Day Tea Party Event. Have you had enough with the outrageous spending in Washington DC? Then come make your voice heard! Join us for a fun time demonstrating the Patriotic Spirit of our founding fathers who also said …

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Tea Parties: Volume Versus Principles | Texans for Fiscal …

February 12th, 2010

I think if more conservatives and Tea Party types knew about Perry’s spending spree (growth in the size of Texas government under his watch), special interest deals (Gardasil), land grabs (TTC), tax hikes (business margins tax ), …

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Debra Medina — A Tea Party Cautionary Tale – streiff's blog – RedState

February 11th, 2010

Now I know a lot of folks are going to read this as an anti- Tea Party hit piece or a reflex action by an “Old Guard” GOPer. If that is your takeaway, fine. I would hope that more would grasp the vulnerability of the Tea Parties to all …… Medina has spoken of Texas secession, scrapping all property taxes and the new Texas Margins tax ( an ill conceived gross receipts tax ). Somehow, she wants to finance Texas government by cutting spending (no specifics) and getting all …

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Time for a British Tea Party – Telegraph Blogs

February 10th, 2010

Why is there no British Tea Party ? Where are the crowds of revenue slaves flocking to London to demand redress for the squandering of their money? Marginal tax is rising to 50%, VAT to 17.5% and state spending towards half the national …

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Five Tea Party Convention Lessons – Swampland – TIME.com

February 8th, 2010

Based on the past, If we reduce the top tax rate down to 20%, we can expect 5-6% economic growth and 50+% in income tax revenues over the next decade. We can then cut spending and eliminate programs. It is very possible to ween people …. Sure the Tea Party folks sound like fools the way they throw around the worlds socialism, nazi and tlak about Obama’s birth certificate. But, the ideological roots of that movement have a lot more credence and applicability today than …

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The Tea Party Goes After Ron Paul « The Washington Independent

February 8th, 2010

The Boston Tea Party started because people started a ” Tax Revolt”. If you want a true ” Tax Revolt” you have to stop spending and taxing. Americans are sick of paying half of their hard earned wages to the government so they can send …

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Tea Party could help, or hurt! « Moneyed Politicians

February 8th, 2010

Tea Party could help, or hurt! Anything would be better than what we have; or not! By Jack E. Lohman. Our politicians have ruined our economy by spending good taxes on bad policy. Who would complain about taxation if there wasn’t do much waste and … Conservatives promise that tax cuts will lead to more jobs, but that’s wishful thinking. Remember George Bush’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2003? Where are the jobs they were supposed to create? Yea, I know, in China and India. …

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REAL Tea Partiers would piss all over today's band of losers/burnouts

February 6th, 2010

Anti- tax “ tea party ” organizers are delivering one million tea bags to a Washington, D.C., park Wednesday morning – to promote protests across the country by people they say are fed up with high taxes and excess spending. …

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Southern Beale: Tea Party Weirdos

February 5th, 2010

I mean my God, these Tea Party organizers have done a masterful job of presenting their movement as some kind of anti- tax , anti-government spending groundswell that appeals to both left and right. Every media report I see mentions that …

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ontd_political: Tea Party: Bush Bankrupted America? You Lie! And …

February 4th, 2010

PHILLIPS: What got the Tea Party movement going is just the absolute sheer magnitude of the spending and what will ultimately come as the tax increases that started with this administration. You know when the Bush administration was …

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Tea leaves: Republican establishment still rules – Jonathan Martin …

February 4th, 2010

“This is a reform impulse,” former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove said of the anti-Washington, anti-Obama mood that has fueled the tea parties . “Our candidates have to be willing to talk about spending and deficits and the expansion of government in … The Democrats think they can create jobs out of thin air and tax money, but economics does not work that way. A Country must first have wealth creation before the Government can levy taxes. Reply; Quote; Report Abuse …

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$3.5 Trillion Tax Hike In Obama's Budget | Sweetness & Light

February 3rd, 2010

In this April 15, 2009, file photo, about 4000 people gathered on the south steps of the Oklahoma state Capitol in Oklahoma City, as part of a National Tax Day Tea Party to protest excessive government spending. …

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Seeineye's Blog » Understanding the Tea Party Movement

February 1st, 2010

Those who are passionately protesting at Tea Parties and making themselves felt at the polls have rightly detected more than a hint of contempt for the average citizen. If everything were going well such elitist arrogance might be accepted … Does the unfathomable income tax system really cost us more than $300 billion a year in tax preparation expenses? Yes. Has spending billions of dollars to confiscate blue-haired ladies’ knitting needles and millions of pocket knives …

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Is the Tax Day "Tea Party" a movement or an enterprise?

February 1st, 2010

Description: Sponsors are pulling out of the Tax Day ” Tea Party ” among accusations of profiteering. The event is billed as a grass-roots movement that arose around Tax Day last year to protest exorbitant federal spending and alleged …

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Zandar Versus The Stupid: A Cincinna-Tea Party

January 31st, 2010

But Wilson and other Tea Party organizers concede that the vast majority of them will run as Republicans, just because that is the party that most closely represents their anti- tax , anti-government spending philosophy. …

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Zandar Versus The Stupid: A Cincinna-Tea Party

January 31st, 2010

But Wilson and other Tea Party organizers concede that the vast majority of them will run as Republicans, just because that is the party that most closely represents their anti- tax , anti-government spending philosophy. …

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Tea Partiers give tax-and-spend protests a rest, call for Reid's …

January 12th, 2010

FORT LAUDERDALE — Venturing outside their traditional milieu of tax -and-spending protests, about a dozen Tea Party activists and sympathizers stood at a.

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Talisman budgets $5.2B in capital spending (CBC Calgary)

January 11th, 2010

Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. plans capital spending of $5.2 billion this year, the oil and gas company announced Monday.

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Old South Meeting House – Tea Party News: Washington Liberals Find …

January 9th, 2010

Tea Party issues: Bailouts, Spending, Taxes, Big Government, Health Care Reform, Global Warming, Gun Control, Elections, etc…The Old South Meeting House is where the patriots met to plan the Boston Tea Party . … The grassroots effort pulled together up to 4 million people in hundreds of events across the nation in 2009, highlighted by nationwide protests on Tax Day April 15. Now the anger and frustration from ordinary voters has coalesced into a movement fighting big …

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Old South Meeting House – Tea Party News: Bo-Tax Replaced with …

January 8th, 2010

Tea Party issues: Bailouts, Spending, Taxes, Big Government, Health Care Reform, Global Warming, Gun Control, Elections, etc…The Old South Meeting House is where the patriots met to plan the Boston Tea Party . …

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In Worst Economy In Decades Oregon Considers Massive Tax Hike …

January 7th, 2010

This is an excellent opportunity for small government-minded Tea Party goers to come together to defeat wild government spending. But these tax bills aren’t being opposed only by good conservative folks. Even The Oregonian, a left …

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Peter Morrison Reports Interview with Medina | North Houston Tea …

January 6th, 2010

Couple those concerns with a growing dependence on federal largesse, a high unemployment rate, additional school property tax buy down and diminishing sales tax returns and you quickly realize that the state of Texas must cut spending ….. Senator John Ensign; Constitution; unconstitutional, Health Care Reform; Senator Jim DeMint; Senator John Ensign; Constitution; unconstitutional; Heritage Foundation, Health Care Reform; Sue Myrick;, Health Care Reform; Tea Party …

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Pajamas Media » Tea Party 2010: Revolution Brewing? Or Is That …

January 3rd, 2010

The TEA Party movement is real. It isn’t as big as I’d like it to be yet. But as the Dems continue cramming unpopular programs, gross levels of spending, and inevitable tax increases down the throats of the majority, the TEA movement …

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Young Conservatives Coalition (YCC) – “Tax Day Reminder for Obama …

January 2nd, 2010

For me the Tea parties are not a protest of either democrats or republicans, in my view there is not much difference between them but it is a protest of all politicans. Stop wasting my money, stop spending money you dont have, …

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Tea Partiers Named Person of the Year by WND | North Houston Tea …

December 31st, 2009

Not even the snowy weather could keep these Tax Day tea partiers in Bozeman, Mont., from joining nationwide protests against government spending. (photo: Dick from Bozeman posted this photo to Tax Day Tea Party website) …

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TaxingTennessee: Tea Party Groups Growing in North Georgia

December 29th, 2009

Mr. Groce said his tea party days started on April 15, when he joined the tax day protest in LaFayette, Ga. Protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., and around the nation that day to speak out against government spending. …

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Tea Parties, Third Parties and the Republican Party | Conservative …

December 22nd, 2009

(Kennedy), or (3) that through tax relief we can grow the American economy (Reagan). Surely taking up that mantle – with clarity – is not a request that is too much for Tea Partiers to ask of Republican leaders. Out-of-Control Spending. …

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The Unprecedented Popularity of the Tea Party Movement | Finance …

December 22nd, 2009

… from the original Boston Tea Party incident that occured in the year 1773, these modern day Tea Parties are nation-wide protests by citizens, against government spending, the economic stimulus package and any type of tax increases.

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R i g h t a r d i a: NewsMax: Voters Prefer Tea Party to …

December 22nd, 2009

The tea party movement arose out of opposition to big government, increased federal spending, the economic stimulus plan and tax increases, and rose to prominence when it organized protest gatherings across the country earlier this year …

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BlueRidgeForum » Can Tea Parties Bring Common Sense to Our State …

December 18th, 2009

“Didn’t somebody talk about a Tax Day Tea Party this coming Wednesday? Something about too much spending? Or was that just about Washington, D.C. behavior?” Faithful readers know we have been writing for some time here for example about …

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Tea Party Movement Tops Established Parties in NBC/WSJ Poll …

December 17th, 2009

Specifically, Mathews was irked that the Tea Party Movement (TPM) was viewed quite a bit more favorably than the two major political parties by those polled (VP=Very Positive; SP=Somewhat Positive; N=Neutral; SN=Somewhat Negative; VN=Very Negative; … In this movement, citizens, most of whom are conservatives, participated in demonstrations in Washington, DC, and other cities, protesting government spending, the economic stimulus package, and any type of tax increases. …

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FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » NBC's Bogus Tea Party Poll

December 17th, 2009

The new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll is getting attention for one rather unusual finding: that the right-wing Tea Party movement is more popular than either the Democratic or Republican parties. … start of something known as the Tea Party movement. In this movement, citizens, most of whom are conservatives, participated in demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and other cities, protesting government spending, the economic stimulus package and any type of tax increases. …

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