Tea Party Talking Points

[jinjer]

The Heritage Foundation has put together talking points if you are participating in the Tax Day Tea Party. Here's the link, http://www.myheritage.org/assets/pdfs/h ... et_4-3.pdf

Jinjer

[Full Quiver]

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IS there really no more interest in these events or are you gi=uys holding your comments?

[jinjer]

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." - Margaret Chase Smith

Someone posted this on my wall today

Jinjer

[Who new]

The Obama tax cuts on the middle class are the largest tax cuts in history. The only thing you'll be protesting is tax increases on the wealthy. The prewritten talking points didn't mention THAT did they? It isn't cowardice, you're just playing for the wrong team.

[Shellie]

We can always trust in Who new to show up to defend the liberal left wing.

[jinjer]

What I am protesting is taxation without representation. As a taxpayer, our voices are being ignored. I am standing up for my liberties not just taxes. I personally think the tax code should be abolished. Income taxes were to be temporary when instituted. Temporary is long over. I am on the right team, the liberty team.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Jinjer

[jinjer]

Oh and by the way, you can't cut taxes on those who pay no taxes. Those who pay the greatest, should have the greatest cut.

Jinjer

[dolfan]

What I am protesting is taxation without representation. As a taxpayer, our voices are being ignored. I am standing up for my liberties not just taxes. I personally think the tax code should be abolished. Income taxes were to be temporary when instituted. Temporary is long over. I am on the right team, the liberty team.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Jinjer

[dolfan]

The Obama tax cuts on the middle class are the largest tax cuts in history. The only thing you'll be protesting is tax increases on the wealthy. The prewritten talking points didn't mention THAT did they? It isn't cowardice, you're just playing for the wrong team.

Yes, I protest tax increases on the wealthy. They are founded in an ideal that success should be punished and the resources it generates should be confiscated. I protest what the taxes are spent on. I protest the very idea that my production should be reduced by the force and power of government and taken against my consent and then used for purposes that I object to and that are wholly counter to the privacy of property and the liberty of property ownership. Yes, siree I protest tax increases on the wealthy. I protest taxes, period. I protest the flexing of government muscle and the continuation of government corruption. Bribing the lower income earners with piddling tax cuts per household (and, yeah, I know what they are because I do a payroll) and the EIC is simply shifting the taxing burden a little enough to buy some room to use the rhetoric of tax cuts. The political mileage that is gained (and obviously it worked on you) is far greater than the benefit to families. It is classism.

[Who new]

You guys are from a fanatical and uneducated fringe. You won't get what you think you want. You deserve to be ignored. Your points of view are simplistic and unreasonable. You form cheap opinions by looking to see what other right wingers are saying. Not by thinking for yourself. That's just conformity to other fringe elements, not intelligently thought through reasoning. Low quality opinions come from that. Did I mention you deserve to be ignored? I still mean it.

[Pastor Gary]

You guys are from a fanatical and uneducated fringe. You won't get what you think you want. You deserve to be ignored. Your points of view are simplistic and unreasonable. You form cheap opinions by looking to see what other right wingers are saying. Not by thinking for yourself. That's just conformity to other fringe elements, not intelligently thought through reasoning. Low quality opinions come from that. Did I mention you deserve to be ignored? I still mean it.

Who New -- I don't know your educational credentials (love for you to post them) but you just called a woman with a Masters Degree who teaches nursing and an attorney with a Juris Doctorate "uneducated." Do you assume that because someone holds a view radically different from yours that it must be out of ignorance?

[MacUser]

You guys are from a fanatical and uneducated fringe. You won't get what you think you want. You deserve to be ignored. Your points of view are simplistic and unreasonable. You form cheap opinions by looking to see what other right wingers are saying. Not by thinking for yourself. That's just conformity to other fringe elements, not intelligently thought through reasoning. Low quality opinions come from that. Did I mention you deserve to be ignored? I still mean it.

Do I sense a little anger? Getting scared?

Nobody has ever said you need to be ignored.. just that you have been indoctrinated to believe socialism is a fix. You probably believe the Michael Moore movie was true also... without thinking.

See our country wasn't founded on a European theocracy and if we can remind enough people to how our system actually is supposed to work... ie; We the PEOPLE.. and that the Govt is supposed to work for us.. not the other way around. Then our opinions will not be ignored.

[Who new]

What did she need talking points for then? And to be accurate, I called ALL of you simplistic and unreasonable. Even you, Pastor Gary, would only repeat Dick Cheney fears of Nancy Pelpsi and the democrats. Remember that? If you guys have educated perspectives it isn't showing. It's time to grow up and think for yourselves instead repeating the nearest autocratic bloviator.

[jinjer]

I did not need talking points sir, I provided the link for those that may not have time to research. I have read on my own, unlike most, real history and have made my own mind up. I DO think for myself.

Jinjer

[Pastor Gary]

What did she need talking points for then? And to be accurate, I called ALL of you simplistic and unreasonable. Even you, Pastor Gary, would only repeat Dick Cheney fears of Nancy Pelpsi and the democrats. Remember that? If you guys have educated perspectives it isn't showing. It's time to grow up and think for yourselves instead repeating the nearest autocratic bloviator.

Actually I don't recall repeating Cheney re Pelosi... although I have my own, personal disdain for the politics of Pelosi based upon thinking for myself and observation.

The need for talking points? A lesson learned from the radical left. Repeat the same sound bites out of many mouths and they get covered; fail to do so, and the press covering events will seek out the most ignorant, looney representative of your cause and try guilt-by-association in their attempt to reduce you to irrelevance.

Case in point: during the recent furor over legalizing same-sex marriage in Hawaii, the local news media was on the gay marriage bandwagon in a big way, couching it as a civil rights battle, playing clips of M.L. King speeches, interviewing sweet, "normal" appearing, well-educated lesbians holding their cute children in their laps spouting talking-points you can Google and pull off the same-sex marriage websites.

But for the opposing view? They sought out a crazy. They ignored the middle-class families, business people, pastors, priests, elected officials and other rational voices, and, instead showed a toothless, reactionary, kind of crazy-looking woman holding a badly handmade poster yelling about "Adam-and-Eve-not-Adam-and-Steve." Talking points simply are part of the culture wars being fought in the media.