Interview with Ken Hoagland, Online Tax Revolt
posted at 2:55 pm on March 23, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Earlier today, I spoke with author and activist Ken Hoagland of the Online Tax Revolt, a new effort to create a virtual march on Washington for April 15th. Ken talked about the need for opponents of the existing tax system to link arms and demand a reform of the tax code, which exists to serve those in power far more than it does to serve the people. People can design their own avatar to represent them individually, and the Online Tax Revolt will bring those individual petitions to the capital on Tax Day to demand real change and a return to government by the people and for the people, not government by entrenched elites for entrenched elites.
Although Ken has authored a book promoting the fair tax proposal, The Fair Tax Solution, excerpts of which are available at Ken’s website, the coalition supporting the Online Tax Revolt comprises backers of other solutions as well:
- Mike Huckabee
- Herman Cain
- Rep. Tom Price
- Rep. Jeb Hensarling
- Michael Reagan
- Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher
- Neal Boortz
- Re. Dan Lungren
I may also join as a leader and put together a team of Hot Air readers for this effort. Keep an eye out for more information on that, but in the meantime, get signed up as soon as you can to lend your voices to the effort. Enjoy the interview!
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You know, some schools are doing away with free meals.
Our school quit serving breakfast altogether to save $.
I have friends down in NE & the schools in that area don’t run busses. The parents have to get their kids to school themselves.
Schools should quit running busses & quit feeding kids & this alone would reduce expenses.
I see LOTS of wasted $$ even in our little rural school.
NCLB was a good idea on the outset, but all that’s culminated in is wasted $$ on testing materials.
Schools need to start rejecting federal $$ bcs then they wouldn’t have to go by all these federal rules that come with it bcs that free federal $$ ends up costing local communities a lot more than they get.
Badger40 on March 23, 2010 at 5:28 PM
Heard or read a stat this AM(here? Drudge?)that 60% of this 30 million will have to be partly or fully subsidized. Think about that one for a while middle class taxpayers.
jeanie on March 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM
This is good, but the current regime and thier enablers in congress have no respect for the American people. They need to see a few million of us in thier face.
jdawg on March 23, 2010 at 5:32 PM
It’s kinda cute watching my little avatar truckin’ along. If anything, at least it will keep the electronic snoops busy. Might as well add another “extremist” group to my portfolio…
NTWR on March 23, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Yes! And then some. Need to quietly clog the train station, the metro stops, the streets, the various museums, access to the capitol and it’s halls etc etc, the monuments and especially the Viet Nam Memorial where the principle of civil disobedience represents such poignant history. No weapons, never–it’s self defeating and can lead to devastating consequences. The problem here is that it takes quite a long time and bloody persistence and no fear to pull this off and that’s the problem. You have to ‘feel the spirit’ or it will never be effective. Actually it’s a lefty ploy, but it needs to be turned on them this time. Geez! I may find the Secret Service at my door if I keep touting this? Fomenting insurrection of something? But you know, if it worked I wouldn’t care!!
jeanie on March 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Look, nobody ever said that sitting on your ass was easy. But that’s not going to accomplish anything unless conservatives take over the media.
And that won’t happen unless we suddenly produce more professional narcissists than the liberals have at their disposal.
And that won’t happen.
We are never going to out-agitprop a movement which is based entirely upon self-aggrandization. And no matter how much you happen to respect the rallying cry of “personal responsibility,” trust me: we will never out-recruit the liberals as long as they can continue to yell, “FREE MONEY!”
Conservatives have one, and only one, source of real political power: We create virtually all the wealth in this country.
If you’re afraid to wield the only weapon in your arsenal, then hey, feel perfectly free to scream “FLOWER POWER!” until you’re blue in the face if that makes you feel good.
I won’t mind that in the slightest. And neither will anyone else.
logis on March 23, 2010 at 6:52 PM
There can be no guarantee of a ‘fair tax’ until this is removed:
Then you get a fair tax by default.
And a good start at strangling the oversized beast government has become. Make that your objective and I will sign up… but while that power is vested in the federal government there is NO legislative way to ensure that it will not be abused as it has been since its enactment. That is the nature of governments, to use their powers to the utmost in search of ever more power for those in government. Until the power is removed there will never be safety in mere legislation that can be undone. Remove the source of the poison, don’t go after its symptoms.
ajacksonian on March 23, 2010 at 7:00 PM
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