The Tax Revolt Returns! Tax revolts have been with us for thousands of years. According to David Burgâs encyclopedic work there have been hundreds of tax revolts in world history. These have happened on every continent, among every people as a national, provincial or local affair. Sometimes they have been labeled as being peasant, anti-war or anti-imperialist revolts. But all of them had the main issue of anger against burdensome and unfair taxation. Let me put it this way: What labor organizing is to the left taxpayer organizing is to us. It is organizing on the basis of a palpable, onerous, cancerous oppression. In all my years of libertarian political activism I have never seen such a potentially revolutionary groundswell as what is going to happen this April. As a result of the insane socialist stimulus package there were Tea Bag Tax Day Protest Rallies were held in over 800 cities in America and attracted over 800,000 people like us. The rally in Chicago got over 30,000 people. The greatest victory that the modern day libertarian movement has ever won before was the passage of Prop13, an anti tax initiative in California. This is bigger, because the stakes are higher. The next round of protests is on the July 4th weekend protesting Cap and Trade as well the bailouts. Google tea tax protests July 4th to find the one near you. The war that ended up with British getting the Magna Carta started as a tax revolt. So did the American Revolution. Research has shown that every revolt was caused by taxes, slavery or war (basically they are all the same). One lesson learned is that any new tax must be immediately challenged or people will grudgingly accept it as normal. One sign held up at a demonstration says it all: âBig Government is the Last Stage a Nation Goes Through Before It Dies.â Yes, many of these events are being funded and run by GOPers and conservative talk show hosts. So what? Good libertarian organizations have tabled at CPAC for years and we recruit more libertarians than ever from them. Iâm glad that the GOP and the radio stations are doing the hard work and taking the responsibility of organizing this event. This will be a tremendous opportunity to show our fellow outraged citizens of how the GOP organized the first bailout, supported socialist lending policies, earmarks, pork barrel spending just a few months ago. Anti-war and anti-drug war activists can use this opportunity to expose the wastefulness and horror of these depredations of our liberty. What a tremendous opportunity to recruit and inform concerned people left or right of what we are all about. Be diplomatic and remember we are building a broad based anti-tax coalition here. Leave the anarchist stuff at home until we do more education. Now is the time for ALL libertarians to reach out to this movement and offer support to this worthy struggle to push back statism. That means all think tanks, media and activist groups from C4L to voluntaryist. Whether you are in or out of politics be there We'll remember your good works here when you ask us for support. Contact your conservative friends as well as your counter culture ones. Watch the video called "We the Peopleâ. This video shows Ron Paul and all these wonderful signs being held at previous rallies. Signs that read: âAyn Rand was rightâ, âFree Markets Not Free Loadersâ, âNationalization is Theftâ; âKeep your socialism we want Capitalismâ. All this with John Lennon's "Power to the People" playing! And he ends it all with a phrase from John Galt's speech! These are our people coming there. To see it watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzPmzfv5rJQ
