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Originally Posted by 12clicks
The Tea Party may get some money from millionaires (better check the list of billionaires and their political affiliation before you look dopey again) but they are a grass roots organization of people who want lower taxes, less government, and less spending.
you know, exactly the opposite of what the societal leeches want.
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The Tea Party is the Koch Brothers brain child for Big Tobacco anti tax movement. The tea party came from a anti tax movement back in the 80s and was revived in both name and function by the Koch bros as a way to try and stop Obama after he was elected. It was rolled up as one with the Religious Right.
There is nothing grass roots about it. That's like saying the tooth fairy is real..
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In 2002, before the mainstream media widely discussed Tea party politics, Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), a nonprofit funded in part by cigarette companies since 1987 to support a pro-tobacco political agenda, started its US Tea Party project. Its website stated ?Our US Tea Party is a national event, hosted continuously online and open to all Americans who feel our taxes are too high and the tax code is too complicated.??
In 2004, CSE split into the Tea Party organizations Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and Freedom Works. Those two groups, say the authors, have since waged campaigns to turn public opinion against tobacco taxes, smoke-free laws and health care reform in general.
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http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/02/135...ing-back-1980s