Loveland Tax Day Tea Party
Loveland Tax Day Tea Party First, thank you to the nearly 1,000 Americans that lined the intersections of Eisenhower and Lincoln/Cleveland on tax day 2009 to express your displeasure with out of control government spending. Your conduct was exemplary and should serve as an example of what a peaceful protest should be. I would like to also thank the Loveland Police Department for their diligence, ensuring the safety of the extraordinary event. I read, with some amusement the call ins published in the paper today. Accusations of those standing on the corners as selfish for standing up and making a statement against run away government spending were prevalent. Many callers stated that if you make less than $250,000 your taxes would go down. Wanting a few to pay more of the tax burden for everyone seems to be contrary to the law of the land and if I might add, a wee bit selfish. Article 1, section 8 of the United States Constitution states that ‘The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, … but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; ‘ The question was asked “Where were we when Bush was in office?” We were there vocally opposing the first bail out and other government enhancing programs supported by the Bush administration. How does the problem of one administration putting our children in debt and blaming that president solved by increasing that debt by trillions of dollars? We are not against taxes. We know that government has a legitimate obligation to the citizens of the United States. What we oppose is a congress that passes hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout money without ample time to read the bill. We also vigorously oppose the very idea of passing massive bailouts to the private sector for failed policies and bad management. The unselfish path would be for the people to suffer the consequences of the policies of the leaders we elect. We may dodge the proverbial bullet by passing the bill onto our children because we were complacent in reining in our government because we demanded more from it. The bottom line is that we want congress to be thrifty with our taxes just as we have to be frugal with our personal spending. It is time for government at all levels to reign in the spending and live within its means just like ‘We the People’ must do.
In Liberty,
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