We are pulling out all the stops for our 2nd Annual Tax Day Rally, but we need you there to make it great!!!
Details are easy. Same Time. Same Place.
Kanawha Plaza (see map at bottom of page)
Downtown Richmond
5:30 – 6:30pm Music and Doc Thompson
6:30 – 8:00pm Rally
Speakers Include:
Charles Payne of FOX News
and also these amazing speakers…
Doc Thompson of WRVA Radio
Matt Whitworth of VCU
Chris Kinsel of American Family Radio
Richmond Tea Party Volunteer Testimonials
Donna Holt of Virginia 10th Amendment Revolution
Patrick McSweeney, Constitutional Lawyer
Karen Cooper, Richmond Tea Party Activist
and more more being added daily…
We will be selling merchandise at the Rally. Come early to find parking, hear great music, and pick up a t-shirt!
Where is the Tax Day Rally at Kanawha Plaza?
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Need to know where to park?
My family attended last year and was unable to see anything.
We were hoping for a larger site this year, like Browns Island.
We’re very disappointed.
Could you please send details of your next tea party. I understand there is one to be held on April 15, 2010?
Thanks, Helen
Last year was my first! I can’t wait to get out there again this year.
@Tom: We’re sorry that the choice of venue disappoints you….we looked at several venue options, including Brown’s Island. However, there is a $4,500 fee simply to use the venue, even before any other expenses are totalled. Being a grassroots organization, we simply don’t have that kind of extra funding available currently. The costs for putting on an event like this are very high.
Additionally, we will be competing with the national tea party event in D.C., so it’s very hard to gauge attendance. Regardless of the venue, we hope to see you on 4/15!
Im there!!!
No matter where it is or what you can or can’t see, the deal is in the numbers. The more the better!
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Numbers will be lower due to the FLYING SQUIRRELS!! Show up people!
I am going to the Rally first and then I going to see the Flying Squirrels
You know what the problem is with most of you so called “right wing conservatives”, you are all a bunch oh HYPOCRITES! For 8 years all anybody ever heard was that we couldn’t criticize the president because he is the leader of the country. Yet here you all go and do what you called so called “liberals” anti-patriotic and terrorists sympothizers for doing. Are you all really that ignorant that you can’t recognize your own rank hypocrisy? No one in this country was allowed to voice their opnion much less hold up signs with the president in a coffin (yes that’s you all) without being threatened and told to find another country to live in for it. I recognize that you all have a right to your own opnions, no matter how selfish and misguided those opionons may be. I don’t think you all realize that others have that same right though. I for one am sooooooo sick of you all thinking it’s ok for you to talk all kinds of trash about this country’s current leader when you didn’t want anybody doing it when your C average idiot was in office. You all want to talk about the amount of money the government is spending now that a democrat is in office, yet when we were bleeding money out left and right under a republican president not one of you said a contrary word. Gas prices hit the roof and still haven’t gone back to where they were pre-Bush but we won’t talk about that right? I know I’m just another liberal blaming Bush, but I don’t blame Bush because the only decision he made in office was to run for office again. I blame you all for not seeing that all politicians are the problem, EVEN THE ALL MIGHTY REPUBLICANS! That was a real cute idea, parade a couple of black people out there and let them promote confederate history month, which by the way is ALL ABOUT HATE you ignoramus, that way you all can say we’re not racist see we have 2 black speakers. IDIOTS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
Mike, Many, if not most, people who associate with the Tea Party movement were and are critical of our former President. Let’s not generalize and make each other sides into strawmen for easy defeat.
In 2001 the U.S. budget was 1.9 Trillion dollars. That’s 1.9 Trillion dollars spent by the federal government in one year. The 2011 budget is 3.83 Trillion dollars. President Bush and President Obama have done exactly the same kinds of things to double the budget in such a short time. Both have signed laws to create massive health care entitlements: Obamacare from Obama and a prescription drug entitlement for Medicare recipients from Bush. Both championed multibillion dollar government bailouts of private companies.
You see, this is the problem. The political class has pitted us against each other so that we, the people, tend to accuse each other and blame each other for what is wrong with our country, rather than get together and agree that it is the political class that is wrong with the country.
We’re not Republicans. You might call many of us conservatives or libertarians, but what we really are is open to debate. Really. That’s what America is supposed to be about. What we’re afraid of right now is that the monstrously growing of the government is going to preclude us ever returning to true democratic republic. Too many citizens will be dependent on the political class for the basic necessities of life. The burden of taxation on those trying to improve their situation will hold them back until they succumb to government dependence.
We’re people who think this is a threshhold moment in America. There has been a silent debate for decades. The debate is between the security of comfort and the possibilities that come with freedom. Security and comfort are fine. But when we must sacrifice freedom to attain them, they are a living grave. With freedom comes the hope of great success at the risk of possible failure. But we think that is just the point, without the possibility of failure where is the joy in success? I might not mind falling into a safety net, should I fail, but don’t make that net into a bed. Encourage me to try again by making the net a net, an uncomfortable net.
Mike, you might be inclined to disagree with me on principle. I understand that. But what I am concerned with is how many times we, people on both sides, disagree with each other out of habbit. We buy into the propaganda of our side which says the other side is driven by base motives or shallow or lazy thinking.
We should ask ourselves when confronted by any opinion, “What do I really think?” We should give ourselves permission to disagree with “our” side on issues and permission to embrace the other side. But whatever we think, whatever positions we take, they should consistently come from core principles, and we should be able to articulate how they come from those principles.
I have found that no issue is black or white. It is rarely as simple as right and wrong. Almost always it comes down to right and more right or wrong and less wrong. On the issue of taxation there is a need for government to have money to maintain a peaceful society, but there is a moral principle that it is wrong to take another’s money under threat of retribution. Without any money it is hard to imagine how even basic government function such as protecting the populace from foreign intrusion or criminal activity will be accomplished. Taxing us for these things seems justified. In other words, it the evil of taking a citizens money under threat of retribution is justified if it means employing a military and police force to protect the citizenry.
The question is at what point is taxation no longer justified. At what point does it become abusive of our submission to authority? I contend that the waste and fraud that is so prevalent in Washington is abusive. More troubling, it seems we are about to cross a line where Washington will have essentially bought the votes of enough citizens to prevent anyone from challenging that abuse. A minority pays into the tax system and soon a majority will be getting payments from that system. This is a dangerous situation for a democratic republic. Our freedom is at stake. Perhaps we can avoid the danger if we stop caring about Republicans and Democrats and start cleaning Washington of corruption no matter what letter appears after its name.
Mike J.- you’re correct in one respect, there should have been a larger public outcry when Bush as in office regarding government overspending, but beyond that I don’t understand your point of view. How can one argue that the current rate of government spending is sustainable in any way? Saying that our money needs to be spent for the betterment of society doesn’t make it acceptable and certainly doesn’t make it sustainable.
Regarding your cry or hypocrisy, you are correct but you must acknowledge it on both sides of the isle. It’s more than a little hypocritical that the same left wing activists that have rallied behind the concept of individualism and against the rise of governmental control since the 60’s are now openly inviting the government into the most personal part of their lives…their healthcare.
The Tea Party movement is not about being Republican any more than the Pro Choice movement is about being a Democrat. Yes the Tea Party attracts a large number of Republicans as they are generally more fiscally responsible. The movement however is not about being Republican or Democrat about lessening governmental spending and control over our lives, something that I would hope that people from all political leanings could get behind.
Had a great time at RTP. Charles Payne was phenomenal. For those who criticize the TEP party movement, obviously you have not been to 1 nor do you know or understand its cause. Take the time to educate yourself before spewing out the nonsense rhetoric