tea-bagging is fun AND profitable

Now that the weird National Holiday has passed, conservatives are massing at the border to make at run at Facebook. Hey, why are you surprised? Your parents tried to ruin it, so why not Glenn Beck?

OK. I don't purport to be an expert on the tea party business but it does seem that whenever these folks are quoted in the media (sometimes they are the media) they offer no specifics. They're just unhappy with the government. Yesterday, the local organizer for the Mission, KS event was quoted as saying "no, it wasn't about taxes" (this while standing in front of the post office on tax day) but instead was about "government spending".

She went on to complain about TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) and pork-barrel spending. We have to get government spending under control. Then she stated that what she wanted was for more of the tax dollars to stay local - which is kind of funny, since that's exactly where the TARP and pork-barrel dollars end up. And the sad truth about the facts which typically get left on the floor when the rhethorical banner gets hoisted. Federal taxes haven't gone up. The taxes that continue to increase are state and local taxes. It's a weird thing.