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Tea Party Express Comes To A Head On Tax Day by NPR. "The Tea Party and the Economy" Archived April 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, About.com, September 30, 2011. "A definition of the tea party" Archived November 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, About.com.
In the United States, Tax Day is the day on which individual income tax returns are due to be submitted to the federal government. [3] Since 1955, Tax Day has typically fallen on or just after April 15. Tax Day was first introduced in 1913, when the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified.
Former governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, keynoting a Tea Party Tax Day protest at the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin on April 15, 2011, reflected on the origins of the Tea Party movement and credited President Barack Obama, saying "And speaking of President Obama, I think we ought to pay tribute to him today ...
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There are more than 13,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S.–and over 900 tax types that a tea merchant can encounter selling domestically and abroad.
Seventy-two likely tax protester decisions were rendered in 2005, or less than 7% of the approximately 1,121 Federal tax decisions (including Tax Court and all district court, bankruptcy court, appeals courts and U.S. Supreme Court tax cases) rendered during that year.
The following American politicians were affiliated with the Tea Party movement, which was generally considered to be conservative, libertarian-leaning, [1] and populist. [2] [3] [4] The Tea Party movement advocated for reducing the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing federal government spending and taxes.
The Tea Party protests of 2009 were in part a protest against high taxes (in addition to the allusion to the Boston Tea Party, the name was supposed to stand for "Taxed Enough Already"). Code Pink even reached out across the ideological aisle to try to find some common ground. [85] Tax resistance is used in smaller-scale struggles as well.