On April 15th, Tea Partiers will protest. What are they protesting? Tax cuts?
April 15th marks the first year of the Tea Party Tax Day protests, brought to you by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Rick "Let's Have a Tea Party" Santelli. The original purpose was to protest "high taxes and big government".
On Thursday, a reprise is scheduled to take place across the country, but I can't help but wonder exactly what they're protesting. This page lists the average tax cuts for the nation, and then breaks them down by state.
Overall, everyone got a little piece of the tax cut pie this year. In Arizona, home of newly-conservative John McCain and the even more conservative John Kyl, the average combined tax cut was -$1,023. In Oklahoma, that state threatening to declare war on overtaxation, the average tax cut was -$1,098. In Alaska, -$1,096.
98% of working families received a tax cut in this country. Ninety-eight percent. Every state's average tax cut was similar. So tell me again: What is it they're protesting?
(h/t Daily Kos)
Blacky McBlackerson is in THEIR White House.
"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010
You called it, Savage.
..tell 'em what they've won Bob!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
They don't like the brotha livin' in 'their' house.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
They're protesting on behalf of the very wealthy.
A lot of them don't realize it, and wander around in a lobotomized state anyway. They have no command of the facts, and would likely suffer a subdural hematoma if they tried to read the tax code. (But then, who among us wouldn't?)
Then, of course, there are those Joe-the-Plumber-style dupes, who do realize they're protesting taxing the rich, because they still believe in that version of the American dream. They think they will soon be one of the wealthy elite if they just work hard enough and the government stays out of their way.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
..for 'em, they would protest the tax cuts for the rich that w passed. Yikes, that would put a positive spin on the budget deficit.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
The very wealthy are getting some very hefty refunds this year. The AMT changes gave them a cut of about $3K on average.
You give them too much credit. They KNOW it, but believe the "trickle-down" myth and believe that when the rich pay less taxes, they hire more people and we all benefit. Also, that they will be VERY rich in the foggy future, and this will directly benefit them.
Republicans are easy to manipulate. They have IQs around 70, on average, and their politician leaders rook and swindle them for all they're worth.
The corporate media will tell you what to watch, 100 astroturf teabaggers outweigh 100 thousand anti-war protesters any day.
They want the government to keep its hands off of their Medicare and Social Security AND they will protest tax cuts for working people because none of them work?
It is the only thing that it could be.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Oh I'll tell you what they're protesting. The fact that we have a black man in the White House.
The babies can't handle a little dark skin. Fuck 'em.
to refer to them as "Tea Partiers". They'll always be teabaggers to me and I will continue to call them that. They deserve to be mocked and ridiculed.
Let's not help them clean up their image. They don't deserve it.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
In the interest of accuracy they should be called "corporate sponsored racist dupes". But that's too kludgy so teabaggers works for me.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
it's such a gross term though. Sometimes I use it and sometimes I just think...UGH.
You might like it ;).
... a tyrannical government that is forcing its will upon the people and not listening to them.
Or, as others have put it, 'N1663R in the WHITE HOUSE!'
A BLACK guy in the WHITE House who ISN'T serving drinks.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
... A black man in the White House.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Well since his mother is white he is actually half black. Needless to say, his color is dark enough that these racist are not happy.
It would be very interesting to see the DNA results of the teabaggers. I bet many of them would be shocked at their diverse backgrounds. We are all mutts.
Rita Mae Brown once wrote of old (elite) Virginia families whose doctors told them they had kidney or liver disease when they really were suffering from sickle cell anemia. They couldn't handle the truth.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
to make ignorant jokes about it.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
You miss the point completely.
The families she refers to consider themselves full-blooded anglo-saxons. The fox and hounds crowd.
See the difference?
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
--would result not in shocked disbelief by the teabaggers followed by an awakening insight; only an insistence upon seeing Obama's birth certificate.
They're protesting the fact that the top 2% didn't get a tax cut.
Even though most of the Tea Party clan are poor or middle class, barely getting by, and hate their jobs at Walmart, they know it won't always be that way. One day, they'll make it big.
They watch Fox Business Channel every day - what could go wrong?
Trouble is, when they're making millions of dollars a year, they'll have to pay several thousands of dollars in 'extra' taxes.
Also - there's someone in the White House that needs a good breaking.
April 15th Anti-
black guy in the white houseTax day!"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
As I recall, it is the Teabaggers who labeled themselves Teabaggers originally, until they finally figured out the slang definition of the term--as did I--when the "liberal" media pointedly pointed it out to them. For them to now feign outrage at the moniker is laughably disingenuous.
... rallying and self-validation by hobnobbing with other racist white bastards, they will don their sidearms and march on Washington, D.C. to proclaim their right to carry firearms openly.
Just so's they can gun down the rest of the uppity N1663Rs before they done all get more funny ideas like bein' equal and stuff like that.
Cletus: "yup, the uppity ones. They're the real problem"
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Ick. I just had to cut a Sarah Palin/Tea Party VO/SOT for the noon show. Fuckin' nails on a blackboard, and brainless prattle to boot.
Consider it a rare honor - how many people can say they "cut a Sarah Palin?"
:)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
The Pamela Anderson of the political arena.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
Sarah Palin/Pamela Anderson. One has big boobs.....the other IS a big boob.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
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"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
One would open herself up for just about any guy and the other would open her mouth up for just about any price.
I never claimed there was a direct comparison, but one on a more metaphysical level.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
After reconsideration I withdraw the apples/oranges analogy. In the case of Sarah and Pam it's more like honeydews/cranberries.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
seediness in common.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
... used to be pretty, before the boob job.
Sarah Palin has never been pretty. She's just a boob.
Around here we say "cut the cheese".
Hasa Diga Eebowai
..once a day!
whoops, now its time to be serious again.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
I keep saying that the right wing media is more soap opera drama than anything else. Regularly things like this occur and prove me correct.
It's all a show. They aren't pushing information, they are pushing emotion.
It's the WWF and fox nation eats it up like candy.You know how those kids get with all that sugar!
Whatever their handlers tell them to protest.
They're sheeple, they'll believe whatever FOX News, conspiracy theory or right-wing radio host tells them to believe so that they can forget how miserable their lives really are.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
Reslugs are always the party of just say "NO" to anything good for average Americans and always kissing ass to corporations that screw Americans.
If nothing else....just to be present and put a damper on this absolute nonsense.
The ancient old white folk are getting scared stiff. Jesus...they're going to take away my IRA and pension!! Run for the hills...or better yet, start up your electric chairs and head for the hills.
Those things don't have a lot of power to go up a hill. Besides, they'll have to be back in about three to four hours for the early-bird special.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
You'd think the ancient old ones would be getting it, going through the "red scare" and all. I guess maybe this is awakening that comfortable fear of their youth?
Actually I'm 54 and it occurs to me that their is always some evil out there bent on destroying us. One goes away and a new one pops up...or at least so they say.
They are protesting paying taxes, which is naive. They are rejoicing in an outlet for misdirected anger (yeah, many over the black guy). But protest they should. They should protest:
When they get over their tantrums, I would like to welcome them to the party.
When they get over their tantrums, I would like to welcome them to the planet.
...Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom and freedom, in that order? Also, there's the liberty to consider, but I think that's all been taken away now... Not sure how to tell...
They do like those two words. I've yet to hear a teabagger explain what they mean.
...is that if I "were a real American" I'd already know...
"What don't you understand about all of our freedoms and liberties being taken away don't you understand?" has got to be my father's favorite sentence to say to me, sadly enough...
John Ashcroft at him?
"To those who would frighten freedom-loving people with phantom tales of lost liberties, I say to you, 'You are only aiding the terrorists.'"
That’s the “No True Scotsman” fallacy. Interestingly, it’s one of the few logic fallacies that doesn’t have a corresponding Latin name, but it goes like this:
Formally, it’s an ad hoc change being used to shore up an assertion, combined with an attempt to shift the meaning of the words originally used.
The fact is big money makes it happen. The biggest money is industry groups and international bankers and brokerages. Regardless of their ideology big money not a socialist conspiracy runs the show and collects the vast majority of their tax payments.
The larger percentage of the total the few have the less there is for the other 90% to EARN.
Grasp this reality and the whole deal changes. They won't though. They prefer the soap opera. They want the drama.
That is the tragedy. The people who are most angry SHOULD be the angriest, but that anger is being successfully manipulated in the wrong direction. They are not fools for being angry, they are fools for being manipulated.
..and they are even more foolish not to realize how they are being manipulated. They'll swear they are not puppets and palin, beck, bachmann, breitbart, et. al. keep pulling the strings.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
These people are the least common denominator. A significant portion of them are low income whites who refuse to believe that they have anything in common with low income blacks.
They tend to be less educated, less traveled and certainly less exposed to diversity. They live in small, closed communities, particularly in the rural areas.
They are the people that unions were created for. They are the people that government assistance was created for (blacks obviously were also beneficiaries, but if you check the stats...the percentage differences are not that great, AND the only difference is it's inner city blacks as opposed to rural whites). That's why the corporations are able to use race baiting so effectively. These whites don't want believe they have anything in common with those "other people".
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
No matter how you look at it, taxes ARE a redistribution of wealth. The government takes, and the government spends. Who they take from and who they give it to is the problem. Though these ignorant white people are mostly poor (relative to the ones orchestrating their “movement”), they give a disproportionate amount, and receive fewer and fewer benefits. Instinctively they know that.
The racial overtones are there, obviously. But these people are in the same boat as we are. They’re scared. Fear and anger go hand in hand. Without knowing why they are scared, it’s easy to blame the black guy, or any other group. That’s bigotry. But I don't think bigotry is their main problem (though it is there). Fear is.
Though these ignorant white people are mostly poor (relative to the ones orchestrating their “movement”), they give a disproportionate amount, and receive fewer and fewer benefits. Instinctively they know that.
Agreed. The ignorance is in not understanding that it is the RICH and corporations..not minorities... who are reaping the benefits of an increasing regressive tax system.
These folks should be forming groups with their neighbors of all races, and understand just who their oppressors really are.
But I disagree with you on the bigotry. Bigotry is the reason why these folks refuse to equate themselves and other races as being in the same economic basket.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
You may be right about the bigotry. I’ve always had a problem empathizing with it.
Nothing to empathize with. We've all been exposed to it.
It's like pornography...you know it when you see it.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
--Bob Dylan
The people who are most angry SHOULD be the angriest BECAUSE they brought it all on themselves, by voting against their own interests for decades.
Fuck them and their anger, they should direct it at themselves where it belongs.
Feeling superior Pete? You're faulting sheep for being sheep. I know what you say is true. You know it as well. They don't. What's the answer?
Lamb chops?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
They are celebrating their right to buy little yellow flags, get drunk and reinforce their ignorance.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
They cannot get drunk or call a spade a nazi until they get home.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Do they get to fire their guns in the air and whistle at the city girls?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
to the people.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD-E9hKCWM
Hasa Diga Eebowai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD-E9hKCWM
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
an echo in here.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v36qCXzCud0&fe...
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Palin
ContractFound in TrashWe all return to our roots at some point.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
The really creepy kind.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
will the people of alaska protest the heavy taxation on oil companies or do they enjoy the state welfare they receive from oil companies?
Well, to be honest, they're not entirely sure but they seem to have misplaced their country. Haven't seen it have you?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
... at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. I think there was a tabloid article once that said Atlantis was down there, or maybe the Garden of Eden.
And on April 19th they'll be celebrating Hitlermas Eve...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
protest the trillion or so dollars that are used to fund our military industrial complexes bogus war on terra.
Im gonna go there with a sign that says use it for healthcare instead...and then I'll pay my taxes
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
Milquetoast, that money is sent to corporations, thats untouchable!
are the taxes I'm not gonna pay.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
will the teabaggers protest RomneyCare and it's use of federal funds (not state funds)used to support it?
pay for abortions or family planning?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Yes...it...does.
It also recognizes "domestic partners".
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
This Mitt is Toast!
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
...that Romney gets the nomination in 2012; we should start prefacing all of our campaigning about how we got all of our great ideas about healthcare from Mitt Romney. Th president should bring it up in every debate, thanking his opponent for blazing the way for healthcare reform by leading the charge for an almost identical pilot program in his home state, of which he was governor... That should go over well with his teabagging friends...
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/13/romney-fe...
Does this mean someone here is still planning to vote for a Democrat? On this site that makes you kind of Mavericky. Oh and btw I agree.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I'm betting on Romney/Gingrich for the GOP ticket. Yours is a good plan.
That Cal-State Stanislaus is in trouble over wining and dining Sarah Palin to get her to speak at the university's 50th anniversary bash. I almost spit up my coffee.
It's sad and pathetic that an institution of higher education invites a brainless, lying, opportunist head of a moronic, racist, ignorant "movement" to speak at an event celebrating the ideals that people like her hate, if that is, they even understand them.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
...I object, too. It pisses me off that a state university is paying a hack like Palin one thin dime, much less $75,000. I don't care if it's not state funds used to pay her...it's a state university and shouldn't be wooing an ass like her.
Hmm...will it take her 5 years to finish the speech and will it be completed at another university?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
pronounce California State University-Stanislaus.
Can I just call you CSU, Stan?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
is more like $100K!
Sarah speaking there gets them big coverage because you know our media follows her every move. If it was on entertainment tonight that would be ok but it's on the news.
Whore.
And the people who invite her to open her ignorant trap for publicity, ratings, or campaign boosts are themselves Johns.
The pimps are the cynical folks at the GOP.
Sad times we live in. Sad times.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
or a recall.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Assemblyman Leland Yee, but at least he's investigating the Palin speaking debacle and asking for full disclosure.
Two students claim to have found documents pertaining to the matter in a garbage pile. Said documents detail Sarah's 'requests' for accomodations, transport, and speaking fee, all of it outrageous.
The Federalist Papers, Article 36: The Same Subject Continued
Concerning the General Power of Taxation
As to the suggestion of double taxation, the answer is plain. The wants of the Union are to be supplied in one way or another; if to be done by the authority of the federal government, it will not be to be done by that of the State government. The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage, if the provision is to be made by the Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burdens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Let's see...what can they chant now????
DRILL-BABY...DRILL! Too late, Obama is doing that.
LOWER MY TAXES!!! Too late. Obama did that too.
REIGN IN THESE BANKS! He's trying. It's called financial reform which your Repug buddies are stalling on.
RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION!!! Last time I checked, restoring the rule of law was the same thing.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
REIGN IN THESE BANKS! He's trying. It's called financial reform which your Repug buddies are stalling on.
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They're tapdancing in airport terlets?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
the wars
the bailouts
the banks
the economy
the patriot act
the torture
the guantanamo
the phone tapping immunity
ect...ect...
no answers? ...no taxes! I'm gonnad protest againts timmy geithner hank paulson ben burnanke rubin and sommers ect ect...(I might even protest Obama a little bit)
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
...at the protest with a sign that says "Congress sucks"...
...and everyone will agree with me! (teabagger or Commie)
(that way I can't be labeled an Obama hater)
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
Put something like:
'keeP All sociaLIsts out of goverNment! congress SUCKS!'
shadowgm
These Republidiots are protesting against brown skin, the drop in occult superstition across the country, and the changing demographics which makes honkey white Christanics a minority.
These Republicans *hate* what our country stands for, our rights, freedoms, and liberties which are enumerated in the Constitution. They hate our counmtry because they want rights, freedoms, and liberties to apply only to white honkey Christanic cultists, nobody else.
I heard a bit of Palin at this " event " talking about the Constitution , my first thought was that I doubt if she's ever even read the Constitution and #2 , if she has read it the blithering idiot would not have understood it . For Palin to read and try to understand the Constitution ... it may as well be written in Chinese .What a joke ! I almost feel sorry for her followers , simple logic tells you that they are even dumber and more ignorant than she is , life cannot be easy for these morons .This would all be good entertainment and hilarious but these people vote , that's what is frightening . No wonder Bush was close enough to steal the Presidency a second time .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Morons protesting the Federal government , instigated , encouraged and supported by people who work for the Federal government ! Can people possibly be any more senseless and dumb ?
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
IRONY. It's whats for (conservatives) breakfast.
What's more hilarious is that I was having this discussion with one of my conservative colleagues just this morning. I know about what she makes because we work on the same team, so I know she makes about the same as I do and here she is, wanting to protest the very things making life easier on her now.
It boggles my mind... she's smart too. I just don't get it.
Was over $2000! AND I can go to the doctor! Talk about win/win!
A) The country is running so much more efficiently under Obama
B) Obama is taxing the rich
C) The tax cuts are just a shot of adrenaline that is paid for by deficit spending and the bill comes due later
C, right?
But I'm coming around to the majority opinion. It's the extra melanin in the House that terrifies them. Really, if they weren't upset about Bush, why are they upset _now_?
I found this interesting article:
http://www.grass-roots-press.com/blog/?p=99
Doesn't anyone remember this? They are 8th cousins, but let us not forget that in the slave loving SOUTH, if a person has even ONE DROP of black blood he/she is still BLACK.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/u...
.... 47% of people pay no taxes and 56% are protesting for a tax cut.
So we must be talking about the 9% who don't pay taxes and are protesting high taxes. Who are they?
If you need funds to pay for essentials, you have a revenue problem
If you need funds to pay for frivolity, you have a spending problem
I doubt these morons could even tell you what exactly they are protesting , they'd just repeat all the one liners they hear , very likely you'd walk away scratching your head .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
You state "the average combined tax cut was -$1,023". That can't be what you meant to say. If the tax CUT was NEGATIVE $1023 that would be a tax INCREASE of $1023. I believe you meant to write that the average combined tax cut was $1023.
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