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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
Cut medicare.
Cut SS.
Cut the military budget with a bloody machete.
Stop foreign aid...that means you too, Israel.
Go through the budget with a fine-toothed comb and a scalpel. Anything not specifically authorized by the Constitution gets cut and left to the States or People.
Congressional salaries cut to the national average. Likewise the President's salary and that of any person being paid from the Treasury.
Totally de-fund all unConstitutional or redundant agencies.
That'll do for a start.
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That what an anti-tax protest
should be about, and yet none of those things are even mentioned in any of the teaparty websites Ive read so far. It hasnt been mentioned by any of the big funders. And a plurality of tea parties in my state are being organized by county level GOP.
I would love for the debate to be about liberalism vs libertarianism, or some variation of the theme. But the tea parties, as currently organized, are nothing more than GOP propaganda machines. Even the libertarians who originally thought of such protests seem to agree with that:
The Liberty Papers Blog Archive Where Was the Republican Outrage Before Obama Was Elected?
The Futility of Protesting | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
SO NOT the Face the Tea Party Needs Temple of Mut
The Liberty Papers Blog Archive On Tea Parties and Republican hypocrisy
Backstabber: Is Rick Santelli High On Koch? -- Freedom Underground
read specially this last one, and how the "chicago tea party" website came to be
I mean, the national organization behind these things is funded by gopusa.com and, the john birch society and Glen Beck fundraisers, partnered with Newt Gingrich's American Solutions, promoted freely by Fox News and with dozens and dozens of republican speakers, and yet people claim it to be non-partisan?
Again, Im all for libertarians organizing and pushing their agenda, but these tea parties are certainly not it, and people going to them blindly will in all likelihood feel quite dissatisfied when they realize the whole thing is really radical wingnuttery.
I will bet real money here with anyone that you will hear more about gay marriage and evolution at these things than about cutting medicare, SS or military spending.