Boston Tea Party on The Common

[scottw]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

The NYT poll is interesting.

As scottw pointed out, the movement is supposedly for lower taxes yet, 52% of Tea Party supporters regard the income tax they pay as "Fair"but oppose the massive increases that are coming..... "supposedly"...no JD, they're actually for much higher taxes

62% of them support Socialized programs and feel "the benefits from government programs such as Social Security and Medicare worth the costs of those programs." show me where in the poll it states 62% support "socialized programs", if you've paid into these programs your whole life you probably don't consider them "socialized" because you get the statement showing your contributions and what you are getting and figure you are collecting your own contributiuons ..more like a savings...but if you are currently paying and realize that every penny that you contribute today is being transferred to someone else immediately and not being "saved"...then you would consider this a "socialized" program or more aptly... a PONZI SCHEME "

Not to mention 47% of them feel as though their figurehead, Sarah Palin, would *not* be an effective President.I'm guessing most don't expect her to run either


The above is what I'm talking about when I say that the makeup of the party is detrimental to the foundation of the movement.
And then there's always this:

you hate the movement, why do you care?