"On Tax Day, tea party rallies show dislike for government
WASHINGTON — Tea party protesters marked tax day yesterday with exhortations against “gangster government’’ and appeals from Republicans seeking their grass-roots clout in November elections, a prospect both tempting and troubling to those in the movement.
Well, it is -- with a mouthpiece MSM!
A day after a tea party rally on Boston Common, several thousand protesters demonstrated in Washington’s Freedom Plaza in the shadow of the Ronald Reagan office building. The protest capped a national tour that started in the dust of Nevada and finished in the capital that inspires tea party discontent like no other place. Allied activists demonstrated from Maine to Hawaii yesterday in smaller groups, all joined in disdain for government spending and — on the April 15 federal tax filing deadline — what they see as the Washington money grab.
And it gets a BRIEF, readers! Obviously NOT an AGENDA-APPROVED PROTEST!
The Washington rally was spirited but modest in size, lacking the star power of tea party favorite Sarah Palin....
There they go again, dragging her drooping ass into it. I thought I might pick up a Globe during my errands later, but I don't know now.
Why would I want to pay money to be lied to and insulted?
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I like coffee in the morning anyway.
Still have a bad taste in my mouth.
"Obamas’ 2009 tax return shows $5.5m in income
WASHINGTON — Because of revived book sales after he became president, Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, made $5.5 million last year. They paid about one-third of it in federal income taxes.
He's not an everyman, American; he's one of the elite.
The Obamas gave $329,100 to charities in 2009. The president, who released his tax returns yesterday, also donated the $1.4 million in award money for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize to 10 charitable groups. He never touched the $1.4 million, and it was not included in his 2009 income.
And that award has now been cheapened forever.
Obama, a former law school instructor and US senator, became a millionaire a few years ago through sales of his 1995 memoir “Dreams From My Father’’ and his 2006 political book, “The Audacity of Hope.’’ He received about $4 million in royalties in 2007, the year he launched his presidential campaign.
And America bought the MSM of him cutting across lines of representation and constituencies during the campaign.
That is how they sold us their new front man and America bought it!
Obama is paid $400,000 a year as president, although he received $374,460 last year because he took office on Jan. 20.
Seems too much to me, sorry -- especially with the taxpayer paying for all the living expenses.
Also see: Stimulating the IRS
