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Many Spend Tax Day at Tea Parties
Posted By Sheldon Richman
“Wednesday’s deadline for filing income tax returns offered some Americans a timely excuse to vent their frustrations as demonstrators attended more than 750 Tax Day tea parties in cities like Boston, Washington, East Hampton, N.Y., and Yakima, Wash. The events were meant to protest government spending, particularly the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus package and its $3.5 trillion budget.” (New York Times [1], Thursday)
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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/politics/16taxday.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
[2] “What Big Government Is All About”: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/what-big-government-is-all-about/
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