Burleson County Texas Tea Party

There are so many things that could be protested that it is hard to settle on any single one. Here's a partial list of some candidate issues. Choose the ones that matter to you, and write to your representative about them.

• Forced bailout of mortgages for those who made bad or risky investment choices by those who were more careful.
• Massive federal spending on government social programs that are likely to become entrenched interests.
• Increasing taxes on small businesses and their owners, who are the engine of the economy.
• Massive deficit spending that will take many generations to recover from.
• Ineffective throwing of hundreds of billions at financial institutions with no discernable positive result.
• Reduction of tax breaks for home mortgages and charitable contributions.
• Not allowing details of "spendulous" plans to be seen, read and comprehended prior to a vote.
• Massive "Cap and Tax" on the same kind of air molecules that we breathe out every few seconds.
• Wealth transfer that discourages industry and promotes laziness.
• Lack of concern for the trillions of dollars of personal savings that is being lost in the stock market.

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To make your objections heard in Washington, simply place a tea bag in an envelope along with a short and polite letter explaining your protest. Send it to your elected representatives in D.C.. You can find your representatives and their addresses by entering your zip code at the congress.gov website. You can also send a similar protest letter and tea bag to the President as well as the leaders and key committee chairs in the Senate and House. Ordinary first class mail letter postage will be sufficient. UPDATE: Some people have written in to say that there may be problems with a tea bag getting through security. You may want to just include the tag from the tea bag, an empty tea bag, or print out a picture of the tea bag. Feel free to use the flagged tea bag image on this website if you want.