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Jewish World Review
April 14, 2009
/ 20 Nissan
Some Get the Tea, Others Get the Bag
By
Debra J. Saunders
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In December 1773, Bostonians held a Tea Party in Boston Harbor to
protest excessive British taxes. "No taxation without representation"
was their message. On Wednesday, April 15, Americans will hold rallies
across the country to protest onerous taxes. Organizers have a motto for
their Tea Day "taxed enough already."
Big problem: There is a world of difference between 1773 and 2009. Two
hundred-plus years ago, Americans risked life and limb protesting a
distant and oligarchic system of government that did not represent the
good people of Massachusetts.
In 2009, the federal government is dysfunctional because, if anything,
Washington is too representative of the American voter, who has come to
expect both more government and lower taxes.
The Tea Day agenda www.teapartyday.com is a call to arms to
Americans who are fed up with a president and Congress who "are spending
trillions of borrowed dollars, leaving a debt our great-grandchildren
will be paying" and expanding the size and scope of the federal
government. It plays to the anger felt by taxpayers who resent the
runaway growth of government for good reason. Too bad it is
inconsistent to complain about the deficit and taxes.
No doubt many who show up at the Tea Day rallies will argue that they
didn't vote for Obama and should not have to pay for his programs. I
have news for you folks: Conservatives lost. American voters elected a
big spender and, one way or another, Americans will have to pay for his
agenda. The Obama tax hikes on Americans earning more than $250,000 have
yet to materialize but when they do, they'll be taxation with
representation, a campaign pledge made good.
Do I like it? Absolutely not. I believe that Obama's soak-the-rich
approach will be bad for the economy. And so apparently does Obamaland,
it seems, as the administration has decided to postpone Obama's promised
tax increases until the Bush tax cuts expire.
Sorry, folks, but the Democrats have co-opted the anti-tax cause. The
result isn't lower taxes or smaller government. The result is that
Democrats use the power of the White House and Congress to push for
bigger government, which Democratic constituents don't bankroll. Thanks
to Obama's "Making Work Pay," about half of American households will pay
no federal income tax at all. Those families have every incentive to
support bigger government, secure in the knowledge that only others will
pony up.
Folks who aren't likely to show up at the April 15 protests have
benefited most from anti-tax fever. Former GOP House Speaker Newt
Gingrich has hit the airwaves to advocate for the Tea Party. When
charlatans like Gingrich climb on the bandwagon, you should always check
the wheels.
This is the same guy who, along with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appeared in
global-warming ads, and told Americans, "If enough of us demand action
from our leaders, we can spark the innovation we need." Now he's leading
a protest against proposed carbon taxes. He ping-pongs from one side to
the other like the American voter for a cause, until it bears
difficult consequences.
Tea Day organizers are telling supporters to send tea bags to
Washington. You can sponsor a tea bag for $1. On the one hand, it's
great that citizens want to participate and let their views be known
as long as conservatives don't equate their protest with that of
patriots who risked it all for their revolutionary beliefs in pursuit of
democratic representation.
The Tea Day's list of woes includes the government wanting "to take your
wealth and redistribute it." Good, I just wish the list included tenets
that call for some sacrifice or responsibility on the right. But the
list does not call, as former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer did in the
Wall Street Journal on Monday, for Congress to reject Obama's pledge to
decrease taxes for 95 percent of the country, out of the conviction that
every American should pay income taxes.
I don't like the new Obama programs either, but political leaders must
recognize that someone is going to have to pay for them, and patriots
can't tout an agenda with no sacrifice.
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