Tax Day Tea Party
From Sunshine Review
"Stop Spending Our Future" |
In early April, organizers reported that they expect about 500 local gatherings to be held around the country.[1]
The name "Tea Party" harks back to the Boston Tea Party.
Tea Party activists are beginning to plan a series of protests on July 4.[2]
[edit] Motivation for protests
Tea Party organizers are opposed to aspects of the 2009 mortgage bailout, the TARP, the the 2009 stimulus bill, and the Obama's 2009 federal budget.[3]
Local Tea Party organizers have mentioned as their motivation:
- "Our country’s future, our economic future and the legacy we will leave generations to come [is at stake]. Our representatives have forgotten who they represent, what the Constitution says, and that WE are THEIR boss. We surround them, we put them in office and together we can send them home."[4]
- "I do not want children to be born owning the government a life time of wages for what they are spending now."[5]
- "If we don’t stand up collectively today, there may not be another opportunity where people will even feel compelled to come out, take a stand, and have a sense of power in what they do when we all protest a federal and state government that must constantly be reminded that WE are the government–not the other way around!"[6]
- The Tea Party movement is about "The heart and soul our country and everything that she was built upon and up until the past 10 years has stood for.”[7]
[edit] Organizers
The Tax Day Tea Party website lists these sponsoring organizations:
