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I like this creative idea posted on the New York page:
Just a thought: starting at the top of each hour, beginning at 7am, specific NY counties (beginning with St. Lawrence, Franklin, and Clinton, and then working down towards NYC), can hold a 1 hour tea party, culminating with the 2 hour tea party in NYC (for the lower counties of the Bronx, Kings, Nassau, NY, Queens, Richmond, and Suffolk).
14 continuous hours of tea parties from one end of NY to the other would make a bigger splash (pardon the pun) than a single 2 hour tea party most of the state cannot attend.
If travel time to a tea party is under 1 hour, and the event time is specific (i.e. 7am - 8am), and all participants are aware of the dramatic big picture (a cascading, relay race type effect of tea parties beginning in Clinton County and ending in NY County), I think more people would be energized and would participate.
Think about it - a STATE-WIDE ORGANIZED EFFORT IN EVERY COMMUNITY! Parents can put signs on their cars while bringing kids to school or going to work. 4 people or 400 people can gather at an intersection or along a major road in their town with their signs. Every one who cannot attend a tea party can pledge to call, email, or fax their congressional reps and the white house DURING THEIR COUNTY’S DESIGNATED HOUR ONLY.
In fact, you could set up a NYS county map at your NYC tea party site; then at the start of each hour, someone would color in with red marker the respective counties holding tea parties that hour. By 7:01pm, the entire NYS map will be red! (kind of like counting down the ball in Times Square on New Year’s Eve).
If you really want to give the feds a tea party, work with your state lawmakers to repeal the 16th Amendment, the amendment that gives the feds the power to tax citizens directly. The problem with that amendment is that it makes it too easy for the corrupt federal government to lay constitutionally unauthorized taxes, in my opinion.
In fact, noting that the Founders made the federal Constitution to limit (cripple) the powers of the federal government, the 10th Amendment reserving the lion’s share of government power to serve the people to the states, Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html
So consider that the stimulus package can be thought of as the federal government returning money to the states that it stole from the states in the first place.
Again, the 16th Amendment needs to be repealed ASAP!