tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post646083155556491437..comments2024-03-27T08:39:28.807-06:00Comments on Wash Park Prophet: Fed Taxes At 60 Year Low; Colorado Taxes LowAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-4519040737353515392011-02-11T15:09:01.915-07:002011-02-11T15:09:01.915-07:00Starving the federal government to stop unjust war...Starving the federal government to stop unjust wars and violations of civil liberties in the U.S. was a pretty dumb idea in the first place - one stops wars by electing people who oppose those wars and civil liberties violations are quite inexpensive in a budgetary sense. <br /><br />At any rate, whatever the Tea Party started as, it has emerged as a wing of the Republican party, and one that is strongly pro-war, pro-defense spending, anti-civil liberties, and anti-non-defense spending, at least as a matter of rhetoric, whatever no true scotsman objection you may raise to that group of people and that movement.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-12241267968018120622011-02-10T16:05:39.584-07:002011-02-10T16:05:39.584-07:00Media Confusion: Why the Tea Party Protest? Not Hi...<a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/04/16/media-confusion-why-tea-party-protest-not-high-taxes-government-expansion" rel="nofollow">Media Confusion: Why the Tea Party Protest? Not High Taxes, but Government Expansion</a><br /><br />And in particular for us original Ron Paul Tea Partiers, the movement founded on Dec. 16, 2007, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and when Ron Paul raised $6m in one of his supporter-initiated "money bombs", it was always about starving the federal government to stop the unjust wars and violation of civil liberties in the U.S. (These are not issues for the Beck/Palin hijacked Tea Party launched by Santelli in February, 2008.)Michael Malakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10007582156392845677noreply@blogger.com