Tea Baggers

All jokes aside, I have been watching the Tax Day Tea Party protests and I really have no idea what they are getting so worked up about. Last time I checked my taxes were about the same as they have been the last few years. Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for this link to Conor Clarke’s post What Are Tax Day Tea Parties Protesting? which discusses the expiration of the Bush tax cuts that will only nominally affect those who make over 250,000 a year. I don’t like paying taxes either, but money for police, fire department, road maintenance, our military, the post office, schools, park maintenance, and everything else that makes our society work has to come from somewhere.