Skyfarmr
Jedi Master
(I can post again...I found my passwordjavascript:void(0);)
I was visiting with a fellow Ron Paul supporter yesterday, when he mentioned a "Tea Party" rally at the Capital (Madison, WI) on tax day. My friend was under the impression that the RFID/surveillance monitoring (he's an organic farmer, as well) might have a forum at this rally. I was curious as to the details of this rally...place, time, issues and most importantly, WHO was organizing this rally so I googled away. Turns out that the "TEA PARTY" rallies are happening all over the US on tax day and are being sponsored by the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) ( _http://www.americansforprosperity.org/), whose various associated blogs elude to be non-partisan.
While many of AFP "members" tout that they are non-partisan, wikipedia furthers the deception and defines the AFP as follows:
Washington D.C.-based political advocacy group which describes itself on its Web site as "... an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and federal levels. The grassroots members of AFP advocate for public policies that champion the principles of entrepreneurship and fiscal and regulatory restraint."
More on Wiki, or their website, BUT beware of the registration form...looks like a worm dangling on a hook for anyone hungry for a platform to protest whatever (take your pick, they'll cover it...maybe) It seems to me the AFP has to draw into their movement many fringe issue protesters most likely because many more Americans are getting more generous refunds than in previous years. You may also suspect that the AFP is just a cover for the re-emerging right wing platform... however, after reading a phrase like "fiscal and regulatory restraint" you might not first suspect that conclusion.
What strikes me as curious is that Ron Paul was THE candidate campaigning on the platform that the IRS should be abolished and you'd think that they(AFP) would have welcomed him into this "grassroots movement" TEA PARTY against unfair taxes rally... or vice versa, but alas, he's been un-invited. I guess Ron was sidelined because he was also running on the unpopular party platform calling for an immediate end to the Iraq "war".
The tax laws I WOULD protest would be the federal excise tax increase on tobacco products...OUCH! (Anyone else notice how the tax on pipe tobacco and the big stogy cigars is only doubling.... instead of by a factor of 10 for all other tobacco related products?) I guess sophistication gets to elude the full extent of a discriminant tax....again. javascript:void(0);
So, for any of you who may be lured into attending the "Tea Party" to protest the tax laws, make sure the AFP is an organization you have enough "sophistication" to align with....
as their own Palin said: you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
Now that I KNOW what the AFP-organized Tea party is all about, I have decided to stay home on tax day and....
wait for my REFUND!
I was visiting with a fellow Ron Paul supporter yesterday, when he mentioned a "Tea Party" rally at the Capital (Madison, WI) on tax day. My friend was under the impression that the RFID/surveillance monitoring (he's an organic farmer, as well) might have a forum at this rally. I was curious as to the details of this rally...place, time, issues and most importantly, WHO was organizing this rally so I googled away. Turns out that the "TEA PARTY" rallies are happening all over the US on tax day and are being sponsored by the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) ( _http://www.americansforprosperity.org/), whose various associated blogs elude to be non-partisan.
While many of AFP "members" tout that they are non-partisan, wikipedia furthers the deception and defines the AFP as follows:
Washington D.C.-based political advocacy group which describes itself on its Web site as "... an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and federal levels. The grassroots members of AFP advocate for public policies that champion the principles of entrepreneurship and fiscal and regulatory restraint."
More on Wiki, or their website, BUT beware of the registration form...looks like a worm dangling on a hook for anyone hungry for a platform to protest whatever (take your pick, they'll cover it...maybe) It seems to me the AFP has to draw into their movement many fringe issue protesters most likely because many more Americans are getting more generous refunds than in previous years. You may also suspect that the AFP is just a cover for the re-emerging right wing platform... however, after reading a phrase like "fiscal and regulatory restraint" you might not first suspect that conclusion.
What strikes me as curious is that Ron Paul was THE candidate campaigning on the platform that the IRS should be abolished and you'd think that they(AFP) would have welcomed him into this "grassroots movement" TEA PARTY against unfair taxes rally... or vice versa, but alas, he's been un-invited. I guess Ron was sidelined because he was also running on the unpopular party platform calling for an immediate end to the Iraq "war".
The tax laws I WOULD protest would be the federal excise tax increase on tobacco products...OUCH! (Anyone else notice how the tax on pipe tobacco and the big stogy cigars is only doubling.... instead of by a factor of 10 for all other tobacco related products?) I guess sophistication gets to elude the full extent of a discriminant tax....again. javascript:void(0);
So, for any of you who may be lured into attending the "Tea Party" to protest the tax laws, make sure the AFP is an organization you have enough "sophistication" to align with....
as their own Palin said: you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
Now that I KNOW what the AFP-organized Tea party is all about, I have decided to stay home on tax day and....
wait for my REFUND!