The right-wing teabaggers, organized by Fox News and conservative billionaire clubs, will be staging "tea parties" around the country Wed. to protest raising taxes on the rich back to where they were under Bill Clinton.
The wing nuts apparently know nothing about history. The Boston Tea Party was a protest against a big TAX CUT for the East India Tea Company, a big corporation which was killing colonial small businesses. Glenn Beck and other right-wing clowns are invoking Thomas Paine in their call for people to rise up against redistribution of wealth and government spending, ignorant of the fact that Thomas Paine was a RADICAL LEFTIST, who SUPPORTED redistributing wealth, and advocated taxing the rich to provide universal health care and education, and even called for the creation of a "social security" system! Someone should send Glenn Beck a copy of Harvey J. Kaye's masterpiece THOMAS PAINE AND THE PROMISE OF AMERICA so he can learn something about the history of one of America's great PROGRESSIVE/LIBERALS!
Thom Hartmann: The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt!
Here's Thom Hartmann and Harvey Kaye discussing Thomas Paine and Glenn Beck's right-wing re-imagining of Paine's Common Sense.
Right-Wing Billionaires Manufacture "Tea Parties"
Huffington Post Tea Party Roundup
Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future on Taxing Matters
FAKE Teabaggers are Anti-Spend, Anti-Government: REAL Populists Want to Stop Banks from Plundering America
TAX DAY: You Pay Your Taxes, Why Don't the Rich Pay Their Share?
Robert Reich: A Short Citizens Guide to Kooks, Demagogues and Right-Wingers on Tax Day
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