The invocations
of the Boston Tea Party—on April 15, no less—suggested that last
week's Tea Party protests stemmed from anger about taxes under
President Barack Obama. But Obama has not actually increased income
taxes—only the federal tax on tobacco, which the majority of people
don't pay. So why, writes Steve Chapman, did people rally across
the country when they should have been planning how to spend their
tax refunds? Because their true dismay is about the mushrooming of
federal outlays, which the demonstrators regard as a future tax
increase in the making. Which, of course, it is.
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