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rightisright said, 5 months ago
The Founders would be far more horrified by liberalism, the size of this modern tyrannical thugverment and the way the press works for them like soviet lapdogs.
braindead08 said, 5 months ago
The current Tea Party is definitely financed a whole lot more than the one in the cartoon.
Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago
Yep, the original TEA party were outraged at taxes. Just like today. The fat-lazy-taxers just couldn’t raise taxes fast enough for the welfare queens.
Molon Labe said, 5 months ago
Stand against tyranny? Try a stand against a three pence per pound of tea tax. With a selling price of two shillings per pound of tea that amounts to a 12.5 percent tax (12 pence per shilling)
The modern tea party takes its name in part from the protest, not the destruction private property, as recorded in the historic tea party of 1773. TEA party is actually an achronym for TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY. A recognition that at a tax rate including federal income, state, local, property, exise and other taxes and fees, most americans are paying about 50% of their income in taxes, the problem is not a TAX issue, but a SPENDING issue.
I just wish those of you who CLAIM to know history would actually read a little of it before you spout feces out of your pie hole.
Robert Landers said, 5 months ago
@Ms. Ima
You have no representative in the House of Representatives? Or no Senators from your state?
What the early American Colonists were upset about was not paying taxes, even to the distant King of England. What they were upset about is that they had no representation in government. You on the other hand do have such representation,, And so your argument is just like very weak tea!!
cjr53 said, 5 months ago
@Molon Labe
Maybe the poor are paying somewhere up 50% of their income in taxes. However, unless you provide proof to the contrary, I consider your post to be an extreme exaggeration.
-And, that the rich rich are paying the lowest percentage in taxes, yet reaping the most in benefits of the American government.
Jase99 said, 5 months ago
@Ms. Ima
“Yep, the original TEA party were outraged at taxes.”
No, they were outraged at taxation without representation.
“The fat-lazy-taxers just couldn’t raise taxes fast enough for the welfare queens.”
I agree! In 2002, the libertarian Cato Institute estimated that corporations received $92 Billion in from the government, not including tax loopholes, no-bid contracts, “accidental” billing overcharges and outright fraud. The government would save a bundle by kicking corporate welfare queens off the dole. Glad to see you’re advocating true fiscal conservatism!
Tigger
said, 5 months ago
In late December 2010 which party was in control of the House and Senate?
Answer: The Democrats
In Late December 2010 whop voted ‘Yes’ to extend the Bush Tax Cuts for only the Top 1%? Remember this: All Liberals repeated said Bush gave Tax Cuts to only the Tip 1% and no one else. Obama said this repeatedly during his 2008 run for President.
In Late December 2010 who failed to pass this stupid bill passed by Democrats?
Answer: President Obama.
Nice to know that Obama is a Republican disguised as a Democrat.
Jeddidyah said, 5 months ago
@rightisright
The bill of rights was the extreme and still is the extreme of liberalism….look at the rest of the world (except for you, maybe you should just gnaw off your left hand and foot just in case they don’t betray you while you sleep)
ghostkeeper said, 5 months ago
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Er . . . okay, just that the Democrats were in the White House from 1932 to 1952 . . .
ghostkeeper said, 5 months ago
@Robert Landers
MAD cartoon series= Sentences Spoken After Historic Sentences=
A historic sentence=
“TAXATION . . . without REPRESENTATION. . . is TYRANNY!”
Sentence spoken after=
“It ain’t so hot WITH, either!”
motivemagus said, 5 months ago
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Um, no, Radish, you got that wrong. The GOP acted much like today’s GOP in the thirties — when FDR gave in to demands for austerity measures, the depression got worse again instead of improving as it had been, until he went back to what worked.
The GOP was pro-working man up until about WWI. Teddy Roosevelt was too liberal for today’s Democratic party!
motivemagus said, 5 months ago
Speaking on behalf of my fellow Bostonian and those who actually know some history: @rightisright, @Mr. Ima: READ SOME! Boy, are you guys completely, bizarrely wrong.
Radish
said, 5 months ago
@ghostkeeper
Yes, the republicans were in charge in the 20’s and caused the great depression and then they were in charge in the 2000’s and caused our current great recession.
dtroutma
said, 5 months ago
The original “Tea Party”, and Declaration of Independence were about being ruled by a “foreign” power using dictatorial powers, and NOT listening to the colonists pleas, and in many cases, self-interest protests. The “founders” were wealthy men, out indeed, for the majority, protecting their own self interests, which included keeping slaves and indentured servants, and paying as little in taxes, to ANYONE, as possible. Others of the founders, like Ben Franklin, with that silly post office, post roads, public libraries, volunteer fire departments, and other silly stuff to promote “the general welfare”, would be branded by today’s “TEA party” folks, as a raging communist.
What amazes me, and others here, about the most staunch “right wingers” on these posts is their total ignorance of the actual documents they claim supports their views, or actual history; not cited by Limbaugh, Coulter, O’Reilly, and others more dedicated to ideology, than fact.