Tax Day Becomes Protest Day

Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies -- dubbed "tea parties" -- to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Apr 15, 2009 - 12:42 AM PDT
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Fred Gatlin
1.9
by Fred Gatlin - Apr. 15, 2009

Does this article think because he denies it then it must be the truth? I would hope not. This article lacks credible facts or rational commentary.

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Kristin Gorski
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by Kristin Gorski - Apr. 15, 2009

The writers asks "So who's behind the Tax Day tea parties?" and claims that just "ordinary folks" are. There's actually been a strong push by commentators on CNBC and FOX to get this movement started, and the author does not acknowledge this in a complete way (he does mention CNBC briefly). The story needs more quotations from and profiles about direct participants in order to get a full picture of who is involved. There's more to the story here, and this report touches only on the surface.

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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Apr. 16, 2009

A first-person trend story on people using social networking tools to organize Tax Day protests. Timely, but not too original.

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Apr. 16, 2009

Interesting article about 'tea parties' and related tax protests, from Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds (who also edits the right-leaning Pajamas Media website - see link). The author presents a generally factual overview of this tax protest movement, and adds his own well-reasoned perspective about what it means for the GOP and U.S. politics. But this is an opinion piece, not a news report, and as such it doesn't provide much sourcing from independent perspectives, and offers limited context about pros and cons of this new movement.

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Peter L. Combs
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by Peter L. Combs - Apr. 16, 2009

A well composed and good attempt to put in context the various angles of today's Tax Protest movement..liberals, conservatives and everyone in between..Americans being American!

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Kenneth Sibbett
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by Kenneth Sibbett - Apr. 16, 2009

While the author must think this is a good idea, since he had no other opinions, I think this is ridiculous.What are they marching for? Some for tax reform, some for changing how the government work, some for local issues, such as city council. Anything you can think of, people are marching for, aided by Rush, Hannity, and the idiotic Beck. I don't blame anyone for marching for something they believe in, but don't do it because a stupid show on FOX say's so.

While a lot of these people are honest in their intentions, some just want to be on T.V.

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