Need a tea party - Homeowners Rebellion

[Marty]

The following editorial appeared in The Wall Street Journal on May 1, 2007:

The great American tax revolt is brewing again, not inside the Washington Beltway but in cities across the country. Minnesota, Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut, Arizona, Virginia, Florida—all have voters trembling with agitation against high and rising levels of taxation.

Last month anti-tax activists in Minnesota staged a tax protest that drew some 6,000 taxpayers to the steps of the Capitol Dome in what is considered to be the highest turnout for a political rally in years. The crowd was three times larger than the turnout for the hyped MoveOn.org global warming march in Minneapolis. Three days later, hundreds of taxpayers in Lansing, Michigan, swarmed the capital steps to protest Governor Jennifer Granholm’s call for higher taxes on business, gas, cigarettes and alcohol. “Not Another Penny, Jenny,â€