photo by Molly Duett

Adeshina Lawal
Staff Writer
ailawal@valdosta.edu

With yesterday being National Income Tax day, many Americans, along with many Valdosta residents, are at unrest.
Gathering in the afternoon off N. Ashley St., people came  from all over Valdosta to protest what they believe to be unfair taxation, using the 1773 Boston Tea Party as precedence.
The people see a lot of government spending for bailouts in areas that do not directly affect them.
These areas include, but are not limited to automotive industries and banking firms that failed to see the actual needs of the citizens that they serve.
Because the people feel that their tax dollars are being used in the manner that they seeun fit they have created a rally to show their civil unrest.
“Our founding fathers came together to fight taxation without proper representation with the Boston Tea Party; we gather together today to show that we, as a people, have been taxed enough,” Daine Howard, member of Heart to Heart, an organization that helps to educate the young children of America, said. “In 1773 many gathered to toss tea overboard because of unfair taxing to the colonies; we gather now as citizens all over the United States to protect their youth.”
Noland Cox feels that the protest against unnecessary government spending will help cut spending. The extra taxing can be seen in areas like bailing out GM and other inadequate businesses.
“The interest from loans and borrowing will be higher than the actual principal that they borrowed,” Cox said. “The children will be the ones, much like the social security issue, who will have to suffer.”
He feels that Bush, as well as President Obama, are spending too much on big business.
“This is a National Tea Party,” Cox said.
A anonymous man said, “I am an Obama Supporter. I do not like the fact that big businesses are able to get bailouts rather than bankruptcies like the rest of us. I just think that Obama is getting the blame for a lot of this when he came into office with a severely crippled economy.”
Many people say that the people should be allowed to decide were their tax dollars should be spent; to be allowed to vote on what companies should be bailed out could make all the difference on how companies run their business.