Just what DOES the Tea Party stand for?

Well, the rhetoric is "taxed enough already" but since this is factually inaccurate (we're at a lower rate of taxation than we've been for the past fifty years) one can only surmise that their actual agenda is to object to the novelty of having a black president in the White House.

I mean, really. If there were a group of Americans who actually, genuinely objected to a "big government" then why didn't they rear their heads at any time during the EIGHT YEARS of Bush? George W. Bush grew the Federal Government to its largest size of ANY PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION.

So the teabaggers cannot possibly cite that as a complaint. Well, not with a straight face, anyway.

Probably new stuff across the board. Abolish the fed, overhaul the IRS, Tax fairly, End entitlements worldwide, Raise Tariffs on imports of items that were made here before, establish a no deficit mandate, term limits, line item veto, charge each lobbyist 2 million a year for a lobbying license. charge ex politicians 10 million a year for access to active politicians, legalize weed, make tobacco illegal, and re introduce the 52 chevy and ford and dodge pickup styles for mass production because the current models are so damn ugly.

The Tea Party is a grass-roots movement, without leadership, and without a charter.

The members join for their personal reasons, and work for specific issues and candidates on their own volition.

Generally, you said it, less is more. Less Governement is more Freedom. If want specifics, you have to ask the individual.

Personally, I would decribe myself as Tea Pary conservative, mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. I want the IRS abolished, in favor of a one-page tax statement, and if I'm an employee of a company, that company's accountants can send in that one-page for me. That form would say "what is 15% of what you made last year". Is that specific enough for you?

I would dump card-check. I would ban tenure for government-paid teachers and make them work past 55 if they want my tax-paid retirement. I would ban all taxes that collected from the states by the fed only to be sent back to the states as political favors. I would promote oil production in America, and do my best to strangle Venezuela.

Probably most of the agencies could be cut way back. You notice we have the EPA, OSHA, MMS, FCC, Federal Bank, and so on . . . they never prevent anything, they just jump in and fine people when things don't go their way. What do they do the rest of the year? Bureaucracy and hand outs for political favor.

Evita Peron would go to a town, and tell the big business owner there that she needed bicycles. Later that day, she would give the bicycles to the children. They still love Eva Peron, and hate big business, and they are utterly bankrupt still. This is what Obama is doing, for the minorities and the unions, and the illegals. Take my money, so he can give it to them, so they will elect him to take more of my money. Unbelievable.

Its grassroots and decentralized. Which is positive so its harder for people to hijack the entire movement. Movements within the movement keep it diverse.

Core Values of the Tea party

* Fiscal Responsibility

* Constitutionally Limited Government

* Free Markets

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/mission.aspx

The movement I am with which works inside the tea party is:

Campaign for Liberty (the original tea party movement that started with Bush)

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/about.php

and

Young Americans for liberty

http://www.yaliberty.org/about/mission

10% tax rate across the board, no favoritism. Cuts in all sectors of government spending. Many programs (SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Corporate and individual welfare) of which should be individualized and gradually phased out. Abolish the Fed and a more non-interventionist foreign policy.

Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must subject its citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restrict the liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Such runaway deficit spending as we now see in Washington D.C. compels us to take action as the increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and the personal and economic liberty of future generations.

Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Tea Party Patriots, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the rule of law.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government's interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.

Low government spending, Less government involvement in the lives of Americans, honest and moral political principles held by the men who founded this great country.

I say cut spending on every entitlement program, wasteful pork, defense, etc. Discontinue unnecessary departments (I think America was better off without the Department of Education). Income taxes should be flat (around 12.5%). 97% of the income tax revenues are paid by the wealthiest half of America, with many in the lower half receiving an income tax refund.

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We should have a maximum tax rate, from all levels of government of 50%. We should have a minimum tax rate of 10% from all forms of government. People who live in the US have to help carry the tax burden.

All government social programs should be frozen, cut, then phased out.

The federal government should concentrate on national/homeland security and maintenance of infrastructure that is interstate in scope.

It's a loose affiliation of citizens that have many varied disputes with the current trends in America.

I know this was an accurate direct pointed response to your question and left you no room to generalize or vilify so you won't accept the answer but sorry this is fact.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness!

That's it and it will become possible once again when elected officials honor their oath of office to uphold the US Constitution.

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They want lower taxes.

Even though taxes are lower now than in 2005.

They want less debt.

But Bush's deficit, they never gave a second thought to.