Follow-up: Tax Day Tea Parties A Nationwide Success!

Yesterday's protests were a phenomenal success. With no central planning, no celebrity figure to rally around, regular working Americans around the country gathered to express their disgust with the government's increasing irresponsibility and arrogance.

Here's just another sampling of the 500+ events nationwide. Numbers are still being calculated, but I'd bet there were well over a million Americans attending yesterday's demonstrations against big government, instead advocating less taxes and spending and more individual responsibility and liberty.

Dallas, TX (we had well over 7,000)


Boise, ID


Houston, TX


Harrisburg, PA


Indianapolis, IN


St. Paul, MN


It now seems President Obama did know something about the Tea Party protests after all. And he had a ready-made response: "What more do you want? I've already cut taxes."

Obliquely answering the hundreds of "tea bag" protests around the country on tax day, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he's already delivered the most progressive tax cut in history, with 95% of families getting a tax break in every paycheck.

Americans need a "government that is working to create jobs and opportunity for them, rather than simply giving more and more to those at the very top in the false hope that wealth will trickle down," Obama said.

In his remarks, Obama decried the use of taxes as a political wedge issue "to scare people into supporting policies that increased the burden on working people instead of helping them live their dreams."

"We start from the simple premise that we should reduce the tax burden on working people, while helping Americans go to college, own a home, raise a family, start a business and save for retirement," Obama said.

First of all, I wonder why he's demonizing "trickle-down economics"? He's advocating a system of government confiscation and redistribution of wealth, effectively "trickling down" from the government to people who haven't worked to earn the money.

Secondly, I wonder just who exactly is getting their tax burden reduced? I got nailed even more on my taxes this year, thanks to the weasels in Washington. I've been laid off twice in the past two years and basically now must run my own business in order to freelance and make ends meet until I can find another full-time job. Yet I can't get a loan to replace my six year old computer nor have my taxes been reduced. Last year, my federal income tax rate was 14.88%, this year it's 15.32%! Obama thinks he cut taxes? Maybe, but not for us working Americans! I guess the tax cuts he's speaking of are going to ACORN, unions, and illegal immigrants.

Here's something CNN didn't show you yesterday: the Tea Party crowd wielded the cluebat on hack reporter Susan Roesgen after witnessing her contemptuous and biased coverage of the Tea Party movement.