Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Seattle April 15 Tea Party

Well, after a busy day discovering architectural salvage yards and dropping off surplus stuff at Goodwill, I had a cup of coffee and meandered down to Tea Party in Seattle at Westlake Mall. I arrived in the *ever-so-green* electric car, and parked it a few blocks away lest things go sideways (this is, after all, Seattle...and since we've no shortage of potential obnoxious counter-protesters, being able to fade into the background of leftists and greenies under such circumstances is a fine thing). Event was to start at 5:45, I'd arrived around 5, and the crowd was already gathering.

Now, the pictures here aren't in chronological order, but above was a rather precious sign about some of the Obamatrons more creative vote gathering techniques.
Apparently, agents of the UMPC (Tam Division) made a stealth entry into the tax'n'spend stronghold of Seattle with the sign above.
The Paulians made an appearance, an occurence of questionable benefit. And while I only observed one anti-semitic racist bastard (a Serb offended at the Clinton administration), it was kinda fun watching him be chased about by mid-60's big-haired suburban ladies determined to cover his rather vile signage with less offensive prose.
One of my favorite signs was the "Party Like It's 1773" poster above. Charming, really.
Our friends, the Larouchies (won't they EVER go away?) Really, we won't mind.


And a partial representation of the attending: 6 horse patrolmen, 10 bike cops, whole bunch o' sergeants, and a pointy-hatted Site Commander for free! (Sung to "Days of Christmas").

Good speakers, good MC, and overall a well-organized event, even though it remained apparent that protest rallies are not yet among the well-conquered skills among the non-liberal skillset.

Looking forward to the next one!

GC

13 comments:

Jim Markowski said...

The next step is the start a movement to repeal the 16 th amendment. That amendment repealed Article 1 section 9, clause 4 of the Constitution, which bars the current income tax system. Income taxes are allowed under that now repealed clause of the Constitution:

"There appears to be no dispute about the plain requirements of the Constitution that direct taxes must be apportioned and that indirect taxes must be uniform."

By eliminating the apportionment and uniformity requirements, the Federal Government was give the unlimited and unrestrained ability to tax people. The limits on the power to tax that were so wisely placed in the Constitution, were designed to constrain abusive taxing powers.

A repeal of the 16 th amendment will not eliminate the power to levy Federal income taxes, but mere impose the apportionment and uniformity requirement. Satisfying those requirements are politically unpalatable . That would necessarily result in a excise tax as a substitute, probably a consumption tax such as a national sale tax. Without an income tax, a national sales tax would be far better. People could largely control their taxes by deciding how they spend their money. It would also fuel capital formation at a rate not seen in 125 years.

I say we start here and now the movement to repeal the 16 th amendment.

Drang said...

Sorry I missed you. Got there about 5:40. Had earlier gone to the 12:00 Lake City event, which WAS the LaRouchies. I left as soon as I realized that.

I think it was the cleanest, most well-behaved "event" Seattle has ever seen...

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