Posted by
reasonmclucus on Monday, June 15, 2009 3:41:32 PM
Critics of the
tea parties held
in April noted that participants lacked
a common theme. They carried signs dealing with a variety of
issues making it difficult for simple minded critics to understand what
was going on.
Critics don't understand that protesters felt that government wasn't
interested in them except as a source of funds for government programs
that sometimes have little or no apparent value.
The original
Boston
Tea Party had a specific theme - a symbol of what
colonists felt was wrong. Colonists were tired of people an ocean
away making decisions without considering their input. The new Tea Tax
was just the latest evidence that government didn't consider them
important.
The carbon dioxide tax Congress is considering provides a good symbol
of how politicians in Washington ignore the common people in their
desire to benefit the rich and crooked. As I noted in the previous
post, the whole idea of carbon taxes and carbon trading are part of a
scam developed at the corrupt Enron corporation. Lawrence
Solomon
reports
that Enron for all practical purposes wrote the Kyoto Treaty.
Enron may be gone, but other companies are waiting to take advantage of
the scam Enron's Ken Lay set up.
The proposed CO2 tax provides a strong symbol of an unjustified tax to
protest against. Future Tea Party participants should carry signs
saying something like "Say No to Enron's Breath Tax." A few
participants might bring CO2 fire extinguishers or some dry ice and
buckets of water so they could release CO2 into the air.