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Merced's Tax-Day Tea Party
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Location: UC Merced, Academic Quad.
Time: 10 AM - 3 PM, Lunch Served between 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Date: April 15, 2009 aka. TAX DAY
Come during your lunch hour for: FOOD, PRIZES, MUSIC, AND MUCH MORE!
There will also be T-Shirts sold for $10 at the event. Here is a preview of how they will look:
The College Republicans at UC Merced will host a tax-day tea party, on campus, on April 15, 2009. The event will take place from 10 AM-3 PM.The event is to protest outrageous government spending and to call for a more accountable and fiscally responsible government. Local leaders, church groups, community members, and UC Merced students will be present. We are estimating there will be hundreds of people participating in the event. Books, t-shirts, and other items will be given away throughout the day. Lunch and drinks will be provided on campus.
With the recent announcement that Michelle Obama will deliver the keynote address at this years commencement ceremony, it is important for students and the community to show their dissatisfaction with the wasteful spending and irresponsibility in Washington. A recent poll conducted by the College Republicans at UC Merced found that 77% of students think that the federal government is spending too much money.
The event is being held in coordination with the national tea party efforts. The Tax Day Tea Party is a national collaborative grassroots effort organized by Smart Girl Politics, Top Conservatives on Twitter, the DontGo Movement and many other online groups/coalitions. The Tea Party protests, in their current form, began in early 2009 when Rick Santelli, the On Air Editor for CNBC, set out on a rant to expose the bankrupt liberal agenda of the White House Administration and Congress. Specifically, the flawed "Stimulus Bill" and pork filled budget.
During Rick's rant, he called for a "Chicago tea Party" where advocates of the free-market system could join in a protest against out of control government spending. On February 27th, an estimated 30,000 Americans took to the street in 40+ cities across the country in the first nationwide "Tea Party" protest.Organizers of the February 27th events pledged to continue on with an even bigger and better protest to follow the first. With April 15th being "Tax Day", it was decided to schedule the second round of Tea Party protests to ride alongside the tax deadline.
And with that, the "Tax Day Tea Party", the second round of the Nationwide Tea Party protests, moved into reality.
Submitted by smarquez on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 11:04am
Corporate Taxes, and Their Real Impact On Small Business
" it isn’t really the corporation that pays the tax, but instead it is the shareholders, employees and customers who pay them through lower returns, lower wages and higher prices, respectively. "
Submitted by rresendes on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 8:08am
How Obama Will Change American Capitalism
Whether one feels capitalism is nice or not, empirically there is no debate that no other system governing a society has produced more wealth for all its citizens in a shorter period of time than American capitalism. No society has been able to produce a better standard of living for its citizens, or generate greater amounts of charity around the world, than America over its short history as a nation.
The founding concepts behind America that its citizens own the product of their labor and the government exists to preserve those rights has been extraordinarily successful. Yet it is amazing that there is even a debate as to whether or not that should be the way forward.
This article in the New Republic begins to highlight how Obama will look to fundamentally alter the relationship between the government and American citizens, by claiming that the government is fundamentally entitled to everyone's productivity and thus free to redistribute those efforts at will. Here is an interesting section of the article.
"Finally, there is the sheer size of Obama's intervention. Obama's stimulus program and its budget are going to lift overall government spending from the 30s to well over 40 percent of GDP. Its 2009 budget, along with other public spending, could reach 45 percent of GDP. That's in response to a crisis, but as has happened before, the extent of government intervention is likely to remain permanent."
Submitted by smarquez on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 8:06am
Who Pays for Climate Policy?
-In total, the annual burden from a cap-and-trade program would be $144.9 billion n American households, which would be about $1,218 per household.
-The analysis also shows that the burden of cap-and-trade would be disproportionately borne by low-income households because they tend to spend a larger fraction of their income on carbon-intensive products
Read Full Article by Matt Moon
Submitted by rresendes on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 7:33am
Obamanomics: Does It Make Him a King or Jester?
King or jester? Obama's views and decisions regarding GM and Chrysler are not looking good for his economic legacy. This WSJ editorial starts to flesh out many of his decisions and thier likley effects. It is instructive to read as it provides a perspective on Obama's decisoin making skills which will likely affect many other aspects of our lives.
Submitted by smarquez on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 9:34am
Global Warming: Unstoppable Solar Cycles
Submitted by smarquez on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 6:56am
Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"
Submitted by rresendes on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 8:01am
Tea Parties Unhealthy?
On the Sunday talking head circuit, David Axelrod suggested the Tea Party Movement is unhealthy (story here). His logic is that Obama will cut taxes for 95% of Americans, so Americans should be happy with his policies.
While a nice sound bite, he is a bit disingenuous. The Obama administration is: creating record budget deficits - which crowds out private investment; extending government's reach into private businesses - putting government into unfair competition with private firms, and; raising the cost of private investing through increased capital gains and income taxes - which makes it more costly to grow or start businesses. When such policies are combined with increased carbon taxation, the end result is likely to be less economic freedom and reduced long-term economic growth leading to lower living standards for the typical American.
While economists may differ on the aggregate effects of Obama's economic policy prescriptions, calling Tea Parties "unhealthy" is at best a lapse of judgment and at worst a potential indication of how Obama and his team views opposition to his policies.
Update - Hat tip to Instapundit.
A Rasmussen poll just released shows the Tea Parties were very well received by the public, with 51% having a favorable view versus 33% with an unfavorable view. Particularly interesting, 54% of mainstream Democrats viewed Tea Parties favorably.
Not surprisingly, only 13% of the political elites had a favorable view of the events.
Submitted by rresendes on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 7:35am
Global Warming and Economic Freedom
The public is shifting its view on "global warming" according to a new Rasmussen Report. Currently 34% of those sampled believe human activity is the cause of "Global Warming", this is a significant decline from 47% a year ago.
Today 48% feel planetary trends are the root cause of "Global Warming", versus only 34% a year ago.
The "Global Warming" mantra is used by state and national politicians to push for broader and stronger regulations and taxation related to carbon energy.
As the "conclusive" evidence on climate change is increasingly criticized by the scientific community, it is silly to restructure the economy and reduce living standards until to evidence is conclusive that such a restructuring is critical to America's well being.
By creating highly invasive and complicated tax regimes related to carbon energy, politicians are again pursuing a massive power grab to gain further control of American's economic lives.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out if the public continues to demand harder scientific evidence to accept "Global Warming" as a man-made problem.
Ultimately, personal freedom is only possible through economic freedom.
Submitted by Darcy on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 1:23pm
Updates and Recent Media Attention
With only a little over a week until the Merced Tax Day Tea Party we need all the help we can get. First and foremost, it is critical to our efforts that we spread the word about our event. To do this, I am asking everyone to invite their friends and join our facebook group. To invite others, just go to the group page, and on the upper-right hand side click on "invite friends."
Finally, and most importantly, we need as many people to participate in this event as possible. Other than spreading the word, if you are interested in making signs, passing out fliers to local businesses, and contacting the media, please send us a message. ALL HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED!
UPDATES:
- Michelle Malkin mentioned us in her blog:
http://michellemalkin.com/
- Mike wrote an article in the Merced Sun Star talking about this event:
http://www.mercedsunstar.c
Submitted by Darcy on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 6:14pm
How You Can Help the Merced Tea Party
- SPREAD THE WORD! This is vital to our the success of our event. Please join our facebook group and let them know about MercedTeaParty.com.
- Bring Signs to the event. We need large signs protesting government spending, excessive taxation, etc. However, please NO ANTI-OBAMA SIGNS. This is not about Obama, this is about government bureaucrats not listening to the people!
E-mail collegerepublicans@ucmerced.edu or call Mike at (559)824-2161 if you have any other ideas.
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 4:21pm
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