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Huntley Area Tea Party to Rally Against Taxes

Rally scheduled Saturday, April 14.

The deadline for taxes is next week and the Huntley Area Tea Party is mobilized to protest taxation.

“The core focus is the level of taxation at the federal and state level and what on earth we can do to turn it around,” said Bill Broderick, who is organizing the event for the Tea Party.

Tea Party members will gather from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at Route 47 and Del Webb Boulevard. Featured speaker is U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh. He is expected to speak at 1 p.m.

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“All of us, as responsible citizens, accept our obligations to pay taxes in support of government services. But each of us have the right to question the scale of taxation and spending decisions made by government officials at all levels,” a Tea Party press release stated.

This will be the third year the Huntley Area Tea Party holds its tax rally. Rallies are scheduled throughout the country, including in Chicago on April 16. The tax deadline falls on that day this year.

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Broderick estimates 100 people attended last year’s rally. He was impressed by the tremendous support the Tea Party had last year from motorists. “There were a couple of people shouting negative things, but that’s inevitable,” he said.

“There is a lot of misperception of the Tea Party in general,” Broderick said, adding some polls show 30 percent to 40 percent of those polled have a negative impression of the movement. “The Tea Partiers are not some kind of rowdy group, we are the neighbors of the people being polled.”

The Huntley Area Tea Party’s membership spans all age groups.

“If the media did a better job of explaining the tax problems, (people) would be out there in droves,” he said. “The silence of the tax burden of our children is deafening.”

“The media is much more interested in the next Kardashian than what is going on in our country,” Broderick said. “Illinois is broke. The federal government is broke. Social Security is breaking. I think we’ve done a tremendous job keeping people uninformed in this country.”

The rally will be canceled in the event of rain.

Huntley Area Tea Party is holding a brainstorming session from noon to 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 at The Golden Corral Restaurant, 1591 S. Randall Road, Algonquin.

“We want people to tell us what’s on their mind and what the Tea Party ought to be doing,” Broderick said.


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