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IN MICHIGAN, TEA PARTIERS LIKE THE FAIR TAX: ?The Tea Party movement in Michigan moved from the str?

By Glenn Reynolds

IN MICHIGAN, TEA PARTIERS LIKE THE FAIR TAX: “The Tea Party movement in Michigan moved from the streets to the conference room Saturday, with activists meeting to discuss the movement’s future. . . . The so-called Fair Tax beat out alternative proposals to require two-thirds majorities in the Legislature to raise taxes; the enactment of spending limits on state and local government, and a plan to hold the benefits of government employees to the average level in the private sector. Asked if that means the Tea Party movement is becoming a Fair Tax movement, convention organizer Wendy Day said: ‘No. It tells me that a lot of Fair Taxers came to the convention.’ Day said the primary purpose of the convention and the Tea Parties — a series of well-attended rallies held across the country April 15 — is to channel citizen outrage over the expansion of government and soaring spending into activism.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 14, 2009 (boomark / email).