The New Tea Party

[Jeronus]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=224275&title=nationwide-tax-protests

It is just to crazy to describe. The Right wing and Left wing have switched places. If you don't believe me, FOX news is actually supporting protesters. Is this just Conservative whining?

 

[Fineldar]

It's just the increased weird dumb stuff the mainstream Republican Party has been doing. I know the rich, blue-blood Republicans don't run stuff by voting, but come one guys.

So yeah, just Conservative whining.

 

[Glerken]

Ya, Fox isn't hosting any. That's why they put the headline s "FNS Tea Parties"
Makes sense right?
Oh, and they bought bags of tea, with tax, to make a statement against taxes.
Makes sense right?

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Oh noes! They're gonna teabag the whitehouse!

 

[Lisser]

This entire issue is crap. I have said it before, and I just have to say it again because people need to understand that TAXES ARE IMPORTANT. If we were to reduce the already reduced taxes, we could not afford to have government-funded services.
Imagine this scenario: your house is burning down after the taxes have been reduced to a wonderfully sounding 0% for everything. The fire department has just arrived, and the fire chief is standing there, talking to you, just run out of your apartment/house/w/e. He says to you "Give us a check for $10 thousand and we'll take care of this for you." You reply, "I left my checkbook on the counter." The chief sighs and says, "sucks to be you."
I think I just wrote that entire thing because I was bored. Seriously, though, if you can, pay your damn taxes!!! We NEED them!

 

[Timotei]

Politacal parties tend to go through diametric shifts in policies and views every so often

No more than fifty years ago the republicans had the same views modern democrats had democratics had and vice versa.

I think we are seeing such a change occur and we are bewildered by it.

 

[frank220]

My family only owns half of the property my house is built on, so we only have to pay for a 1/3 of an acre of land. My driveway is free, YAY!!! Plus the state paves it for free because we don't own that particular property.

 

[Lord Kofun]

This whole Tea Party thing is just a big mess. I swear, both sides are progressively losing their minds.

 

[Timotei]

The whole world is undergoing a change and tensions are high.

 

[Timotei]

This whole Tea Party thing is just a big mess. I swear, both sides are progressively losing their minds.

Like I said. Things are going to get even weirder before things settle down.

 

[JMeganSnow]

This entire issue is crap. I have said it before, and I just have to say it again because people need to understand that TAXES ARE IMPORTANT. If we were to reduce the already reduced taxes, we could not afford to have government-funded services.

The tea-partiers neither need nor want government-funded services, hence the disgust with the taxes, and the stupid fire emergency scenario panic thing is pathetic. I can think of a thousand services and goods that people need a LOT more frequently and urgently than a fire response team and those are all provided with great skill and efficiency by what remains of the free market. If you don't understand how a free market actually works, then at least have the grace not to publicly embarrass yourself by shouting your ignorance from the rooftops.

My main concern with the Tea Party protests is that they are ideologically scattered--they're pretty definite about what they're *against* but they aren't really *for* anything at this point. It isn't good enough to be against something because it provides no long-term guidance as to what direction to go in. You have to be *for* something if you want to accomplish anything.

Fortunately a lot of my online friends are working hard to provide these protests with direction by distributing fliers, pamphlets, and even books. I look forward to the planned July 4th protests with at least some hope.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Why do taxes always have to get lower? They're already low, and the government needs them to do things for you!

 

[Leorex]

oh, so i can pay a private company to be my police.

 

[Pseudonym2]

I keep waiting for the Republicans to learn what "teabagging" means especially when they keep saying things like "we can't teabag without Dick [Armey]."

The whole thing is an astroturf campaign anyway.

 

[Glerken]

Well, as we all know, when someone teabags. They're obviously just raging. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[Lisser]

The tea-partiers neither need nor want government-funded services, hence the disgust with the taxes, and the stupid fire emergency scenario panic thing is pathetic. I can think of a thousand services and goods that people need a LOT more frequently and urgently than a fire response team and those are all provided with great skill and efficiency by what remains of the free market. If you don't understand how a free market actually works, then at least have the grace not to publicly embarrass yourself by shouting your ignorance from the rooftops.

Okay, so you say that people should just let their houses burn down, fair enough. And you think that not having police would also be a great thing? Sure, let people vandalize property, let them steal and murder all they like, just so long as we don't have to pay any taxes, right? And all our poor kids can just go right ahead and stay stupid 'til the day they die, cuz the government doesn't have to fund schools. Let's make sure that you have to drive a thousand miles to a factory in some state where you can pick up that guitar you decided to order online while we're on the subject of getting rid of government-funded services, we don't need a postal service.

Face it, we need taxes. The sooner people realize that, the sooner we can move on to important matters. Your ignorance of what taxes actually do for us is astounding, no?

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Had there been a Tea Party closer to my home, I would likely have attended. Not because I particularly care about the cause, I just enjoy the spectacle of silly people being silly.

 

[Fineldar]

I think the best question a reporter can ask the protesters is "Excuse me, which road did you take to get here? Hm-m, and who's public park is this?"

I love how MSNBC is the scrotum joke place now.

Editz0r: I guess if they're so against the bailouts and whatnot, which anyone with brains can see they are quite far from perfect, they should just stop using the economy. We can just kick them out of it, unless they can make some alternate universe where it's all lassiez-faire, watch both of them, record the results, then come back in time to this universe, and show everyone that the alternate universe way is better.

 

[Pyro Ghost]

Personally I don't know why we have taxes in this county. The fire department gets to your house a full 10 minutes after it's burnt to the ground, the cops won't come out for anything less than violence and it takes them 30 minutes to get there on a good day, which is why most people have guns, and the kids coming out of school are so stupid they don't even know how to do simple math in the real world, and it would be better if they had left the roads dirt. I buy all of my vegetables and meat from a local farmer.

Now, I don't support the Tea Parties. But I support the government even less.

 

[Timotei]

Bullying is rampant too. I should know, I'm the butt of every joke in school. And it seems to get worse with each year as the average IQ of my fellow students decreases.