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'Contract From America' Unveiled at DC Tea Party
By Byron Tau - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (April 15) -- For the second year running, Tax Day brought a surge of grass-roots energy to the nation's capital, as thousands of tea party faithful descended on the city today for a day of protests, rallies and activism led by conservative and tea party notables. Addressing a raucous crowd in Freedom Plaza, former GOP Majority Leader and conservative activist Dick Armey said, "There's only one legitimate reason to levy a tax: to raise money. And when you do that, you should raise no more money than is absolutely necessary." Advocating a tax reform plan called the Fair Tax, Sen. ...
Tax Day Tea Party in Washington: GOP Hill Leaders Not Invited
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyA Tea Party rally is scheduled Thursday at the foot of the Washington Monument to un-celebrate tax day, but Republican leaders -- stalwarts of anti-tax rhetoric just up the National Mall on Capitol Hill -- are not on the invite list. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader John Boehner and their top deputies were expressly left off the speakers schedule at the event because they voted in favor of the 2008 Wall Street bailout -- a rescue effort under former President Bush, The Hill newspaper reports. The Tea Party, a grassroots conservative movement that's unhappy with ...
Income Tax: Why 70 Million Americans Don't Pay Uncle Sam a Dime
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyBy midnight Thursday, about 150 million Americans will have buckled down and filed their annual federal income tax returns, and the IRS will begin collecting nearly $1 trillion in revenue from these individuals. While you struggle to meet your deadline, consider that although the law requires you to file a tax return, more than 70 million of your fellow filers will not owe a single penny to Uncle Sam. As the latest news from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center shows, a record 47 percent of tax filers will have no federal income tax liability this year. You may wonder, how is this ...
'Crash the Tea Party' Rallies Planned Nationwide on Tax Day
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyOpponents of the Tea Party movement are planning to crash the group's rallies this week as a way to portray the conservative activists as out of touch with ordinary Americans. The "Crash the Tea Party" campaign -- which calls itself a "group of Democrats, Republicans and Independents" -- has 65 leaders in major cities across the country who are recruiting members to infiltrate events Thursday, tax day, founder Jason Levin told The Associated Press. The goal is "to act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims ...
Obama Wants to Simplify IRS, Possibly Because His Own Tax Return is 67 Pages Long
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyPresident Obama spent yesterday, Tax Day, railing against our current system of revenue collection, declaring that filing a tax return is too confusing and expensive for working American families.Later in the day, the President released his own tax return, which shed a little light on what motivated his morning speech. The damn thing is 67 pages long!But thanks to the twin miracles of technology and public disclosure, Obama's entire return is up on the internet. So if you've always wanted to see what a presidential 2210 form looks like, well now you can.Of course Obama probably wasn't thinking ...
At the Tea-Baggers' Meeting: Brainwashing Devices Are Coming
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI was all set to write about how the media's mockery of the "Tea Party Movement," re-dubbed "Tea-bagging" by the sexual-slang-ignorant Griff Jenkins, is threatening to turn the sac-obsessed revolutionaries into sympathetic figures. I mean, we get it. Tea-bagging has 2 meanings. Actually, it really only has one.But then, Political Machine trollbuster Cube sent me this video, which is too good to pass up. I'll scold my fellows tomorrow. Today, we feast on tea-baggy awesomeness. The fun really starts at about the 3:30 mark.I guess the guy did't get the memo, or he's also accusing ...
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