New Hampshire Tax Day Tea Parties

Taxpayer Tea Parties have been springing up across the nation and more are set to go off tomorrow to coincide with the April 15th IRS income tax filing deadline.  Here in New Hampshire WGIR AM News Radio notes that there will be small gatherings in Portsmouth, Dover, and Plymouth in addition to what we anticipate will be the two main events.  The first of the two main attractions will be at noon tomorrow in Concord at the steps of the state capitol.  Then at 5:30 in the afternoon a second Tea Party will begin in Manchester at Victory Park. 

'Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers Director Ed Naile added, “This event is a chance for New Hampshire citizens’ to express the need to control taxes by controlling government spending, end the continued expansion of government into the free market, and reduce the tax burden on citizens’”. Granite State Taxpayers Chairman Stephen Stepanek agreed, “The taxpayers tea party is an event occurring throughout the country that is a grassroots, citizens’ revolt against the out of control spending occurring in Washington and Concord. It is an opportunity for citizens to tell their elected officials that is our money you are spending not yours, that this is our children’s and grandchildren’s future you are mortgaging”. Kevin Smith of Cornerstone Policy Research stated “The tea party is for citizens who concur that our nation and state has placed too heavy a burden on New Hampshire families and that a dramatic change of course is needed in Washington and New Hampshire

Victory Park in Manchester is located at the corner of Chestnut and Amherst streets. Attendees are asked to bring tea bags to be sent to their representatives. For more information or directions to Victory Park email [email protected] or call 603-475-8435.'

Meanwhile left-wing anti-tea party protest are falling flat, and the lefties themselves are in panic mode.

'So true to form, Media Matters sounded the horn that this was not a real protest, it's a Fox News segment. Kind of a made for T.V. reality show, with a cast of tens of thousands. Think Progress joined in

And the netroot blogosphere heard the call. FireDogLake proprietor Jane Hamsher posted "What Part of 'FNC TAX DAY TEA PARTIES' Don’t You Understand?" Hamsher also promoted "citizen-organized protests" which were unlike the "Fox-organized" Tea Parties; I guess she didn't catch the irony of promoting counter-protests to protest other people promoting protests. Anyway, almost no one showed up for the counter-protests.

Well-known blogger Oliver Willis protested that the Tea Parties are not really "Grassroots." Willis works with "Spontaneous Uprising? Corporate Lobbyists Helping To Orchestrate Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests." for Media Matters, but blogs under his own name. Yet another irony lost, a blogger who works for a media organization promoting opposition to a protest movement because the protest movement is promoted by a media organization.'

Libertarian Leanings will be represented at the Manchester Tea Party.  If I remember to bring my camera I'll have pictures for you, well, reasonably soon.

Comments

[Shirley]

Have fun at your party ! My own small state (Delaware) has four scheduled. Weather is supposed to be lousy, but I'm still looking forward to it. I have met alot of new friends in the past two months....

[Tom Bowler]

Thanks, Shirley. I'll be interested to hear how well your Delaware parties are attended, since the forecast is calling for rain all day. Have as much fun as you can in the wet weather.