Anti-tax protests
Apr. 15th, 2009 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauerzThousands rally at the Tennessee State Capitol at the Tax Day Tea Party in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, April 15, 2009. Protests were also held in Washington, Chicago and Boston, loosely inspired by the 1773 Boston Tea Party rebellion against British colonial taxes, which helped spark the American revolution.
REUTERS/Harrison McClary (UNITED STATES POLITICS BUSINESS)
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Demonstrators participate in a Tea Party protest at the Federal Building Plaza in Chicago, Illinois. Critics of President Barack Obama marked national tax day Wednesday with "tea party" protests that Republicans called the birth of a grassroots opposition, but Democrats dismissed as a fraud.
(AFP/Getty Images/Scott Olson)
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People take part in a tax day protest in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Protests took place around the country to demonstrate against recent bailouts and excessive government spending. Protesters gathered at state Capitols and in neighborhoods and town squares across the country Wednesday to kick off a series of tax-day protests designed to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party.
(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
REUTERS/Harrison McClary (UNITED STATES POLITICS BUSINESS)
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Demonstrators participate in a Tea Party protest at the Federal Building Plaza in Chicago, Illinois. Critics of President Barack Obama marked national tax day Wednesday with "tea party" protests that Republicans called the birth of a grassroots opposition, but Democrats dismissed as a fraud.
(AFP/Getty Images/Scott Olson)
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People take part in a tax day protest in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Protests took place around the country to demonstrate against recent bailouts and excessive government spending. Protesters gathered at state Capitols and in neighborhoods and town squares across the country Wednesday to kick off a series of tax-day protests designed to echo the rebellion of the Boston Tea Party.
(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
