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Rally for 'real change'
Speakers tired of taxes, spending
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Several speakers rallied the crowd Friday during the third annual Tax Day Tea Party in Cumming. - photo by Autumn McBride
A strong wind blew through the large crowd gathered Friday afternoon at the Forsyth County Courthouse steps.Debbie Dooley likened it the “wind of real change” headed to the White House in 2012.Dooley, a Georgia Tea Party Patriot, was one of several speakers rallying the crowd at the third annual Tax Day Tea Party, organized by the Concerned Citizens of Forsyth County and the Forsyth County Tea Party Patriots.Taxes, the budget and the nation’s debt were the topics of signs and speeches on America’s traditional tax day of April 15.Thanks to Emancipation Day, a little known holiday observed Friday in the nation's capital, filers this year have until midnight Monday to get their returns postmarked. Nate Whigham, an Atlanta-based tea party leader, addressed the crowd on the ideology of taxes in the Constitution.As the Founding Fathers saw it, taxes were not able to be put on labor, Whigham said, yet the 16th Amendment granted that ability.Taxes on labor are not a choice, he said, and are comparable to slavery,“We’re here today on April 15 to tell the government that we’re not your slaves,” he said. “We will not be taxed anymore.