A Rallying Cry for Our Time
[Guest post by Jack Dunphy]
Critics of Wednesday’s Tea Parties are fond of distinguishing the grievances that inspired them from those that engendered the 1773 Boston Tea Party. The familiar colonial rallying cry was “No taxation without representation,” prompting some to point out that those who participated in Wednesday’s rallies are indeed represented in government, they just don’t like the results.
Fair enough. But given the staggering debt the Obama budget passes on to generations of Americans yet unborn, perhaps a new slogan is called for. My suggestion:
“No taxation without gestation!”
–Jack Dunphy
As to the complaint regarding representation, they’re correct.
You get all the representation that you can buy.
Apogee (e2dc9b) — 4/17/2009 @ 1:42 amBut given the staggering debt the Obama budget passes on to generations of Americans yet unborn, perhaps a new slogan is called for.
Now, now, give credit where credit is due:
Boohoo, voodoo, Reaganomics bills are due.
DCSCA (9d1bb3) — 4/17/2009 @ 2:02 amTaxation with representation is not working so hot.
Perfect Sense (0922fa) — 4/17/2009 @ 2:58 amASPCA – How are Barcky’s trillions in deficits Reagan’s fault?
JD (0391f9) — 4/17/2009 @ 5:23 amASPCA – Define Reaganomics
daleyrocks (5d22c0) — 4/17/2009 @ 5:28 amDaley – still looking for that info for you. I did not forget.
JD (0391f9) — 4/17/2009 @ 5:31 amI say move Congress to a site in Pelosi’s district that is more appropriate for them.
http://www.visitingdc.com/san-francisco/alcatraz-prison-picture.asp
And not just because it is insular.
Amphipolis (fdbc48) — 4/17/2009 @ 5:46 amThe more criticism that is expressed toward the tea party events the more successful they are. Anyone with a reasonable amount of intelligence can understand the need for citizens to speak out on these issues. To oppose or dismiss them uncovers the complicity of the sources for what they are. Only too happy to have taxpayers fund everything under the sun. The tea parties are in direct opposition to that notion.
Tea parties, carry on, it’s good for America.
Stanford Matthews (b717e1) — 4/17/2009 @ 6:56 amThat won’t work because they are opposed to gestation, too.
Mike K (2cf494) — 4/17/2009 @ 7:18 amBush grew the government debt with the presecription drug bill but it is nothing compared to Obama’s debt. Besides, two wrongs don’t make a right.
Alta Bob (419ad8) — 4/17/2009 @ 7:19 amNo taxation without incubation?
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 4/17/2009 @ 7:27 amThe people stuck with the bill are NOT being represented if they are too young to vote, but are being enslaved by the gimme generation.
Cara (b11809) — 4/17/2009 @ 7:30 amHell, no, we won’t go,
nk (56f8d1) — 4/17/2009 @ 7:54 amWe’ll put you on an ice floe?
“You sold my future, I’ll sell your organs”?
nk (56f8d1) — 4/17/2009 @ 7:56 am“What has posterity ever done for me?”
nk (56f8d1) — 4/17/2009 @ 8:01 am“At least, less harm than you did to us, asshole.”?
In the recent local election, I was one of those guys standing outside the polling place passing out palm cards. The tax protest slate won overwhelmingly over the establishment slate. Way overwhelmingly, with a very simple slogan, “No more taxes”.
nk (56f8d1) — 4/17/2009 @ 8:05 amOne test of the new movement will be the propositions in California next month. I’ve already gotten my sample ballot and “voter information” pamphlet which omits the fact that Prop 1A is a tax increase. It mentions “higher state tax revenues of $16 billion” but doesn’t mention where they come from. The teachers unions get paid off in 1B. With no state employee layoffs, and a huge increase in state spending under Arnold, it is all a fake.
If it fails, it will be a huge indicator. Also, the Republicans lied about the budget deal and drew lots to see who had the safest district and would vote for the budget. There are recalls going for the ones who did vote yes.
Mike K (2cf494) — 4/17/2009 @ 8:17 amTo quote Janeanne Garofalo: Racists!!
Kevin Murphy (0b2493) — 4/17/2009 @ 8:35 amSo after all this time, you people still blame Ronald Reagan?
You have a lot in common with neo-Confederates who still blame Abraham Lincoln.
Michael Ejercito (7c44bf) — 4/17/2009 @ 8:39 amI sooooo need this as a bumper sticker.
Vivian Louise (eeeb3a) — 4/17/2009 @ 8:41 amViivan Louise, when I was in graduate school, I had a friend who was quite right of center. Bought me my first Milton Friedman book.
Anyway, he didn’t tolerate PC nonsense. So we were driving around campus one day in his car, and we see a bumper sticker on another car:
SPLIT WOOD, NOT ATOMS!
He pulls over to the side of the road, and grabs his own bumper sticker from his glove compartment (and there was a stack there). He goes over to the car, and meticulously puts his own bumper sticker over the first one. His bumper sticker?
MORE NUKES. LESS KOOKS.
Your comment about bumper stickers reminded me of that.
Yeah, it wasn’t nice of him to cover up the other guy’s bumper sticker. But it was still funny.
Eric Blair (67731f) — 4/17/2009 @ 8:48 amSorry for the typo, Vivian Louise!
Eric Blair (67731f) — 4/17/2009 @ 8:50 amThe point is that it is a protest over taxes. That is all it has in common with Colonial Boston. Although it is questionable whether our representation is really representative.
I thought the left is spinning the tea parties as racist attacks against Obama? In that case, they should shy away from any mention of taxes in reference to the “republican” protests.
Amphipolis (fdbc48) — 4/17/2009 @ 12:06 pmHah, Eric. Many years ago I made up a bunch of address labels with just one word on them, HANG. Used to place them over the word FREE on the Mumia and Pelletier bumper stickers.
Have Blue (854a6e) — 4/17/2009 @ 12:15 pmYou can get “Fry Mumia” shirts at cafepress.
carlitos (9ca4a9) — 4/17/2009 @ 12:23 pmSince our representatives vote on bills they haven’t actually read, I think the case can still be made for “taxation without representation”.
They aren’t doing the job they were elected to.
Harry Phillips (63afbf) — 4/18/2009 @ 6:15 amOnce DHS arrests 40% of the population that are right wing extremists ….
…. WHO IS GOING TO BE LEFT TO PAY TAXES?
Lord knows Liberal Arts Ph.D.s with large Trust Funds don’t really carry the water pail in the good ol USA.
Juss’ thinking, seriously, aren’t those DHS nut jobs a VAST MAJORITY of the 50% that actually pay taxes????
HeavenSent (637168) — 4/18/2009 @ 6:29 am