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Jeff Weingarten, chair of the Morristown Tax Day Tea Party pictured at the Tea Party held in Manhattan in February.
CLIFTON – “A revolution is brewing” and it promises to boil over on April 15 at the hundreds of Tax Day Tea Parties reminiscent of the original Boston Tea Party.
In 1773 American colonists, fed up with the British government and its excessive taxation, hijacked a British ship carrying tea and dumped the cargo into the Boston Harbor. The act sent a clear message to the British government that colonists would no longer stand for taxation without representation.
Taxation and government spending is once again at the heart of the new ‘revolution.’
On April 15 people will unite and protest what they call the government’s excessive spending and excessive taxation with hundreds of “Tax Day Tea Parties.” Even though this time, organizers say there are no plans to throw tea into harbors, the message to the government will be loud and clear — repeal the pork, cut taxes and spending.
One such “Tax Day Tea Party” is planned for noon on the Green in Morristown.
Chaired by Clifton resident Jeffrey Weingarten, the Morristown Tea Party, is one of at least 500 nationwide and one of at least six in New Jersey. Other New Jersey cities hosting tea parties are Belmar, Flemington, Newark, Piscataway and Trenton.
Weingarten said hundreds, and possibly thousands of people are expected to attend the Morristown ‘Party” because “spending, borrowing and printing more and more money are not core American values.” He said most New Jersey residents, as well as other Americans, all say the same thing: “We are taxed enough already. Enough is enough.”
Gubernatorial candidates Steve Lonegan and Chris Christie have accepted invitations to the Tax Party, Weingarten said, and have promised to speak. He said other politicians and elected leaders, including Gov. Jon Corzine have been invited to attend.
Weingarten said this event is for all taxpayers who are fed up with the government’s “overspending.” He said the events set for Tax Day are not anti-Democrats or anti-Republican, just “excessive spending” and about “Americans wanting to take their country back.”
The idea to hold the tea parties originated with CNBC analyst Rick Santelli, who became a favorite hit on YouTube after his rant from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange against President Obama’s proposed $275 billion homeowner bailout plan and other massive spending measures. While on air, he told viewers he would be scheduling a tea party to protest the spending, and that idea really took off, Weingarten said.
Following Santelli’s “rant” a national collaborative grassroots effort which included Smart Girl Politics, Top Conservatives on Twitter, the DontGo Movement and many other online groups and coalitions, organized and followed through with the planned events, according to taxdayteaparty.com. Individuals or organizations on the local levels have planned the local events.
“This is about public citizens dedicated to supporting the Constitution…personal liberty, responsibility, limited government and free markets,” Weinberger said.
“This is historic, very historic. This really is a We the People moment,” Weingartenr said, adding, “We want to show people that they are not alone in their frustration against government spending.”
Event organizers expect to also break a record on April 15 with the most anti-spending rallies held at one time.
Weingarten said he has spoken to thousands of people and they are all supportive of the events. He said he has not met anyone who objects to the rallies, adding many people are going out of their way to attend.
“There is a group of older people in their 70s from Exit 58 on the Parkway who have chartered a bus and are coming to the event. They are calling themselves the “Band of Patriots,” Weingarten said.
Some Tea Parties have already been held and others are scheduled to take place prior to Tax Day, Wiengarten said, adding he was a guest speaker at the Tea Party held in Manhattan in February. He said since then the word has continued to spread and attendance keeps growing.
While Manhattan was having its own Party on Feb. 27th, an estimated 30,000 Americans took to the street in about 40 cities across the country in the first nationwide “Tea Party” protest, according to the national Web site.
Weingarten and other organizers attribute the success of the tea parties to a number of decisions made by elected official, starting off with Congress voting for a $500 billion tax bill without reading it; spending trillions of borrowed dollars leaving a debt for “our great-grandchildren”; giving money to special interest groups in earmarks for election purposes; saying they would take wealth and redistribute it; punishing those who practice responsible financial behavior and rewarding those who did not; messing with America’s health care and more.
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