Posted on 08/24/2009 10:24:37 AM PDT by AuntB
On August 28, 2009 Taxpayers will go back to the Capitol to Demand our Representatives stop taxing us and start representing us!
In California's vast and fertile central valley, the federal government has shut off the water to farmers. Fields lie fallow, and once thriving orchards are dry and dead. After generations on the land, families are losing their farms. In some areas unemployment exceeds 40%. All this to protect a "minnow." The government is putting fish before families. This insanity must end.
In the mountains, family owned timber operations, working and managing our forests for generations, are being forced into bankruptcy by the state. The government has made their equipment illegal, and regulations are so onerous that it now costs 30% more to bring a standard 2x4 to market in California than it does in Oregon or Washington. Even the large timber companies struggle to survive. In a state rich with timber resources, we import the vast majority of our building materials from other states, because the cost of local production is simply too high due to severe overregulation. The timber industry is literally being driven out of business by the politicians in Sacramento.
Industries from mining to construction, transportation to ranching, and farming to concrete are suffering under impossible burdens placed by unaccountable bureaucrats and arrogant politicians intent on the complete destruction of California's once world class economy.
Yes, something is terribly wrong. Our politicians and their appointed cronies are strangling this great state. Businesses are leaving California in an unprecedented exodus of capital and talent. Productive citizens and their businesses are fleeing to places like Texas and Nevada, which tout more business friendly policies, less regulation and lower taxes. Meanwhile, California's unemployment rate skyrockets, our cost of living increases, and our politicians respond by passing even more stringent legislation and higher taxes...even when we vote against it!
The laws may be different for each industry. The regulations may vary, but they are all symptoms of the same disease. We are all being crushed by burdensome regulations and taxes imposed by politicians who care more for causes and political gamesmanship, than people.
The time for change is now. We simply aren't going to take it anymore.
On August 28, 2009, in true Tea Party Patriots tradition, we will bring together people and groups who have never come together before. Taxpayers who are taxed enough already and cannot afford the $3,858 per year energy tax … and farmers, ranchers, miners, loggers, trucking companies, cement makers and builders! All productive, hard working people from all political parties, social affiliations and industries will descend on the state Capitol in Sacramento. We have a simple message; leave us alone. We're tired of your intrusion into our lives and your ever expanding greed for the fruits of our labors. It's time for real change. You can change, or we'll get rid of you. Your choice.
It's time that the politicians and bureaucrats got off the backs of California's productive people and freed them to produce the innovation, wealth and jobs that only they can.
It's time to repeal AB 32, which is essentially California's experiment in controlling global warming. It is devastating California's economy, and studies show that over a million jobs will be lost by the time it is fully implemented. And it's time for the federal government to stop worrying about minnows and to start letting California's farmers take care of themselves by providing high quality food for the rest of us. It's time for them to rescind the Endangered Species Act, or at least provide a hardship exemption to California's central valley farmers. For the sake of our farmers and our state...turn on the water and let them farm!
But those things are just a start. If California and the country are to rebuild, then the government needs to get out of the way. Lower taxes, reduce regulation, and set Californians and all Americans free to produce prosperity for the nation.
Many years from now, children will ask, "What did you do during the revolution?" What will your answer be? Come join us on August 28th from noon to 5 p.m. at the state capitol in Sacramento. We're the Tea Party Patriots...and a revolution is brewing.
Californians! Get On the Bandwagon! Taxpayer Protection Act of 2010 Get The Petitions Pronto! http://www.taxpayerrevolution.org/
From the end of the article, August 28th from noon to 5 p.m. at the state capitol in Sacramento.
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I think it is a furlough day. The politicians may be intentionally absent, because they don't want to face the music.
http://www.collinsreport.net/the-50-reasons-to-stop-obamacare/ plenty of material to base questions on in this list.
Great! A friend and I will be driving down, about 5 hours for us. Hope to see many freepers there!
Sacramento, California is our first stop on the Tea Party Express national bus tour.Date/Time:Friday, August 28th at 12:00 noonRally Location:State Capitol ParkWest StepsSacramento, CA 95814Resources:
The whole Tour is Here
There should be a lot of people!
Thanks for the informatio, Syncro. I’m still making travel plans, but want to be there by noon. We’ll have to leave late afternoon to make the 5 hour trip back. Hope to see you all.
The members and senators are rarely in the Capitol on any Friday.
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