by ChuckyDaniels
June 11, 2009
This Saturday (June 13) Tea Party goers (activists behind a constitutional uprising in protest of government intrusion on basic liberties) will gather in Holt, Michigan for the first Tea Party Convention. The intent of the organizers is obvious: pool all the principle-centered sippers into one area and get them to align behind one or two issues. In other words, graduate from guerilla warfare and become a conventional army capable of inflicting damage.
To validate a trip to the world's loneliest town, organizers established an agenda stacked with special-guest speakers, including Jennifer Gratz and Thayrone. But what makes the Tea Party Convention so innovative is their collective decision to center their brigade in support of a few specific issues. They'll do this by creating a delegation who will vote on which issues to support. According to the convention website (www.teapartyconvention.com) registered attendees can complete petition forms that will allow them to serve as a convention delegate. Those individuals will then choose which ballot items will receive the backing of the Tea Party collective.
Don't look now, but the Tea Party movement just got well-organized. This is a very intelligent strategy from a group of everyday citizens who simply refuse to become pushovers to government bullying. They continue to surprise the "political coconuts" ingrained in our state's campaign underground as well. (A Coconut is hard exteriored campaign junkee who provides only one variety of campaign strategy, contains a hallow core, and leach-latches from one campaign to the other relying on recommendations from within their own integrated network, or Coconut Tree). Furthermore, the collective Tea Party leadership has shown a strong ability to organize, plan and evolve in only a few short months.
As an insider myself, I bare witness to the coconut tree. A group of friendly campaign managers who lobby each other for campaign work. Aimlessly clonking into one another, cycle by cycle, these yahoos have diluted the integrity of campaign management by offering watered-down campaign strategies that aim to appease rather than make a stance.
The TeaParty has shown a resiliancy to absorbing the rants and raves that accompany these tumbling coconuts. Instead organizers has allowed a voice for note-worthy and legitimate organizations set to change Michigan by providing citizen-based solutions. The best example is ballot issues number 2 MICHIGAN FAIRTAX ( www.mifairtax.org ). The MFTA (Michigan FairTax Association) is a collective group of people who recognize the inefficiency and non-transparency of the State Income Tax. With over 100,000 supporters across the state the MI FairTax team have formulated a Michigan-based FairTax system that collects tax dollars through a much more reliable, streamlined and economic friendly source - the State Sales Tax. By reaching a larger portion of the population (under-the-table wage earners and tourists) the MFTA can offer more tax cuts, including state property taxes, the Michigan Business Tax and the State Income Tax. Furthermore, the FairTax benefits those who live beneath the poverty line by offering rebates for the State's poorest people. The best proponent of the MFTA is that it effectively eliminates all business-to-business taxes. This will drive down prices for consumers because businesses will no longer have to bury the cost of operation into their prices - allowing competition to take hold and providing thousands of new jobs.
By providing a microphone for legitimate and effective solutions such as the FairTax (which gained national recognition through Mike Huckabee) Tea Party organizers and the MFTA have unsealed a population of dormant voters who want candidates and coconuts to be more transparent with their agendas and campaign strategies. Sippers and FairTax supporters would rather skirt the two parties, who absorb then taint the message, and look beyond the coconuts to establish legitimacy. By taking an organized business model and incorporating a grassroots predicated ground game, these two organizations are able to cover twice as much ground is half the time. While the MI FairTax could use a makeover in regards to it's website, it's content is second to nonte. And this Sales-Tax-Centered approach is nothing new. In fact, Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, New Hampshire and Tennessee all have adopted FairTax style tax systems. It's notable that each of these states consistantly recruit Michigan workers to their respective corners of America, and all nine represent strong economies.
While each of the three other ballot measures provide a legitimate cause/solution, they do not provide the same type of overhaul and retooling required to prevent further government infringement on our tax code. The MI FairTax would effectively require state transparency, and eliminate the legislatures recklessness by preventing them from raising taxes without voter approval. Instead, tax increases would require a state ballot initiative in which we the people vote for a tax increase.
June 11, 2009
This Saturday (June 13) Tea Party goers (activists behind a constitutional uprising in protest of government intrusion on basic liberties) will gather in Holt, Michigan for the first Tea Party Convention. The intent of the organizers is obvious: pool all the principle-centered sippers into one area and get them to align behind one or two issues. In other words, graduate from guerilla warfare and become a conventional army capable of inflicting damage.
To validate a trip to the world's loneliest town, organizers established an agenda stacked with special-guest speakers, including Jennifer Gratz and Thayrone. But what makes the Tea Party Convention so innovative is their collective decision to center their brigade in support of a few specific issues. They'll do this by creating a delegation who will vote on which issues to support. According to the convention website (www.teapartyconvention.com) registered attendees can complete petition forms that will allow them to serve as a convention delegate. Those individuals will then choose which ballot items will receive the backing of the Tea Party collective.
Don't look now, but the Tea Party movement just got well-organized. This is a very intelligent strategy from a group of everyday citizens who simply refuse to become pushovers to government bullying. They continue to surprise the "political coconuts" ingrained in our state's campaign underground as well. (A Coconut is hard exteriored campaign junkee who provides only one variety of campaign strategy, contains a hallow core, and leach-latches from one campaign to the other relying on recommendations from within their own integrated network, or Coconut Tree). Furthermore, the collective Tea Party leadership has shown a strong ability to organize, plan and evolve in only a few short months.
As an insider myself, I bare witness to the coconut tree. A group of friendly campaign managers who lobby each other for campaign work. Aimlessly clonking into one another, cycle by cycle, these yahoos have diluted the integrity of campaign management by offering watered-down campaign strategies that aim to appease rather than make a stance.
The TeaParty has shown a resiliancy to absorbing the rants and raves that accompany these tumbling coconuts. Instead organizers has allowed a voice for note-worthy and legitimate organizations set to change Michigan by providing citizen-based solutions. The best example is ballot issues number 2 MICHIGAN FAIRTAX ( www.mifairtax.org ). The MFTA (Michigan FairTax Association) is a collective group of people who recognize the inefficiency and non-transparency of the State Income Tax. With over 100,000 supporters across the state the MI FairTax team have formulated a Michigan-based FairTax system that collects tax dollars through a much more reliable, streamlined and economic friendly source - the State Sales Tax. By reaching a larger portion of the population (under-the-table wage earners and tourists) the MFTA can offer more tax cuts, including state property taxes, the Michigan Business Tax and the State Income Tax. Furthermore, the FairTax benefits those who live beneath the poverty line by offering rebates for the State's poorest people. The best proponent of the MFTA is that it effectively eliminates all business-to-business taxes. This will drive down prices for consumers because businesses will no longer have to bury the cost of operation into their prices - allowing competition to take hold and providing thousands of new jobs.
By providing a microphone for legitimate and effective solutions such as the FairTax (which gained national recognition through Mike Huckabee) Tea Party organizers and the MFTA have unsealed a population of dormant voters who want candidates and coconuts to be more transparent with their agendas and campaign strategies. Sippers and FairTax supporters would rather skirt the two parties, who absorb then taint the message, and look beyond the coconuts to establish legitimacy. By taking an organized business model and incorporating a grassroots predicated ground game, these two organizations are able to cover twice as much ground is half the time. While the MI FairTax could use a makeover in regards to it's website, it's content is second to nonte. And this Sales-Tax-Centered approach is nothing new. In fact, Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wyoming, New Hampshire and Tennessee all have adopted FairTax style tax systems. It's notable that each of these states consistantly recruit Michigan workers to their respective corners of America, and all nine represent strong economies.
While each of the three other ballot measures provide a legitimate cause/solution, they do not provide the same type of overhaul and retooling required to prevent further government infringement on our tax code. The MI FairTax would effectively require state transparency, and eliminate the legislatures recklessness by preventing them from raising taxes without voter approval. Instead, tax increases would require a state ballot initiative in which we the people vote for a tax increase.
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