The La Crosse Tea Party will protest at the local IRS Office on Tuesday May 21, 2013
LA CROSSE, WI – Today the La Crosse Tea Party, will participate in a nationwide protest of the Internal Revenue Service at noon local time. The protests are in response to the IRS's admission that the agency has engaged in systemic harassment and targeting of Tea Party organizations. For the past three years, the IRS has been targeting Tea Parties and other conservative tax-exempt organizations for additional scrutiny, and has singled these organizations out for audits and invasive reviews of their tax-exempt applications. The practice was covered up by high level bureaucrats until AFTER the 2012 elections.
"The IRS has demonstrated the most disturbing, illegal and outrageous abuse of government power." - Greg Luce
The La Crosse Tea Party will be protesting outside the local IRS office at 425 State Street today, Tuesday, May 21st at 12:00 pm. Everyone who is interested in reining in the IRS's unchecked power is welcome to join the protest.
We demand the immediate termination or resignation of all complicit in this activity and insist Congress investigate to determine if legal charges must be brought against those involved. We also demand to know what president Obama knew and when he knew it, as new evidence appears daily of an extensive cover-up.
The La Crosse Tea Party is a grassroots group with more than 100 local members and hundreds of supporters. The La Crosse Tea Party is a non-profit, non-partisan group dedicated to promoting the principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. Visit the La Crosse Tea Party online at www.LaCrosseTeaParty.com orwww.facebook.com/groups/lacrosseteaparty.
For further information about the protest, please contact Greg Luce at 608-406-9410.
Tea Party and Teachers Unions come together!
After the dispute over Act 10, it is hard to believe that school teachers and Tea Party members would ever agree on anything. But 150 teachers and other school advocates held a protest march in Chicago demanding an end to tax-increment financing (TIF)–something that most Tea Partiers would readily agree to.
The protesters noted that half of the $500 million going into Chicago TIF districts would otherwise go to schools, and they demanded that one TIF district business owner–a Cadillac dealer that received more than $8 million in TIF subsidies–write them a check for $4 million. The business owner asked police to arrest them instead.
TIF advocates noted that TIF really didn’t cost the school districts anything. Under Illinois law, the schools prepare their budgets and tax rates are set sufficient to fund those budgets. The people TIF hurts are taxpayers who must pay higher rates to keep the schools running since some of the money that would have funded schools is going to subsidize developers instead. So maybe the teachers union and other groups that organized this protest should contact the Illinois Tea Party to gain their support.
