Obama opponents rally at 'tea parties'

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1. Amit bang
   

   It is tax day in the United States.
   
   A Tea Party protester carries a banner saying "Taxed Enough Already"
   Tea Party protests took place across the United States
   
   Twenty-four hours of annual frustration and dread for law abiding citizens by the end of which they must send to the federal government either a completed tax form or a humble and carefully-phrased promise to do so in the very near future.
   
   There has always been a touch of drama to it - even though millions of Americans complete the forms online these days, some big city post offices still stay open until midnight for tax payers who fancy an adrenaline-charged last-minute drive to meet the deadline.
   
   It has always been a day on which a degree of resentment against the government bubbles to the surface.
   
   Tax rebellion
   
   That is partly because America's self-assessment system has grown erratically into a thing of startling complexity. The website of the IRS (the agency responsible for collecting taxes) is said to offer more than 560 different forms.
   
   But it is mainly because the United States was born out of a tax revolt (against British colonialism), and many modern Americans retain a kind of instinctive distrust of the whole idea of big government and big taxes.
   
   So Tax Day seemed like an obvious moment for opponents of Barack Obama to take to the streets to register their displeasure at the spending plans he has outlined, not just in his $3.5tn (£2.3tn) budget, but in his stimulus programme ($787bn), the strategic fund for healthcare reform ($634bn), and the bank bailout programme which straddled the end of the Bush years and the start of the Obama administration ($750bn).
   
   
   We don't have the money we're spending... If I ran my household that way, I'd be in debt
   
   
   It adds up to a projected deficit for this year of $1.85tn - even if Americans all pay their taxes on time.
   
   The protests are being called "tea parties" after the Boston Tea Party of 1773 - when American colonists rebelled against attempts by Britain to impose parliamentary taxes on them without allowing the colonists to be represented in the British parliament.
   
   The modern versions do not quite have that regime-shaking intensity about them.
   
   The protestors at Lafayette Park, just in front of the White House in Washington, were largely middle-aged, middle-class conservatives.
   
   When I arrived, the news was circulating that the authorities had made it known that no actual tea-bags (the demonstrators' favourite props) were to be brought on to the green space outside the White House - no-one seemed to be quite sure what the point of the ban was, or who exactly had imposed it.

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