Here we go again courtesy of our friends at Moveon.org. At least Moveon.org knows when tax day is this year. I will add other events in North Carolina as they are posted. Currently no events are scheduled for Raleigh.
Hendersonville and Asheville added 4/14/11
David DeGerolamo
The right wing is on the attack: slashing public services, eliminating workers’ rights, and destroying jobs. Their excuse? “America is broke”—and yet big corporations and the wealthy are raking it in, and continue to get tax break after tax break. Something doesn’t add up.
America is not broke. The right-wing wants to convince us we’re broke so that they can push through their radical agenda. And well-connected corporations continue to use their political power to dodge their taxes. In 2009, after helping crash the American economy, Bank of America paid $0 in taxes. GE had a tax bill of $0 in 2010. Republicans want to give a $50 billion tax bailout to big oil companies—and at the same time take away food aid to hungry pregnant women and children. This is immoral and un-American.
Enough is enough! On Tax Day, April 18, as millions of Americans patriotically pay their taxes, we will call on corporations and millionaires to pay their fair share. At hundreds of events from coast to coast, we’ll present tax bills to corporate tax dodgers for the billions of dollars their legions of lobbyists helped them avoid. We’ll organize a peaceful, dignified, and powerful day of action to call on corporations to pay their fair share. And we’ll demand that our elected leaders make them pay.
It’s time to demand that everyone pays their fair share to rebuild the American Dream. We invite frustrated taxpayers, underwater homeowners, vilified public servants, job-hunting students, and unemployed veterans—everyone facing cuts or cutbacks, a pink slip or a shrinking paycheck—to join in.
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| Monday, 18 Apr 2011, 12:00 PM |
Make Them Pay – 77 miles away
Chronic Pain Center
3 registered participant(s) (100 maximum)
507 Greenville Bld
Greenville, NC 27858
Hosted by dr steven cohen
Description Wells Fargo and Bank of America pay no income tax yet get guaranteed monies at low rates and are financed with our tax dollars. They should have to pay some tax and provide more loans to poor and middle-class people. These corporations pay nothing yet, like the Koch brothers, are quite vocal. It time for those able to, to pay there fair share, especially when the middle class and poor are losing much of their safety net in healthcare and subsistence. |
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| Monday, 18 Apr 2011, 12:30 PM |
MAKE THEM PAY – 91 miles away
Bank of America, edge of Thruway Shopping Center, the corner of Knollwood and South Stratford Roads, Winston Salem
1 registered participant(s) (100 maximum)
426 South Stratford Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
Hosted by Kathleen Milby
Description Our representatives in Washington are busy balancing the budget on the backs of the working families, low-income people, the children, the sick and the elderly, while the huge corporations, because of special-interest tax breaks and loopholes, pay nothing and many times get millions if not billions in refunds. It is time the corporations paid their fair share! |
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| Monday, 18 Apr 2011, 4:30 PM |
Demanding Tax reform rally – 114 miles away
Corner of Oleander and College
1 registered participant(s) (100 maximum)
Oleander and College
Wilmington, NC 28411
Directions: Corner of College and Oleander Drive, Wilmington, NC
Hosted by Clancy Thompson/Angelia Everett
Description Join us to demand tax reform that makes corporations pay their fair share. We will also be signing a large tax bill which we will deliver after the demonstration to Bank of America regional branch. |
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| Monday, 18 Apr 2011, 12:00 PM |
Tax Day Make Them Pay – 124 miles away
Bank of America HQ
3 registered participant(s) (100 maximum)
100 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Hosted by Yvonne McJetters
Description Tax Day Make Them Pay Event:
The right wing wants to convince us we’re broke so that they can push through their radical agenda–abolishing Medicare. And well-connected corporations continue to use their political power to dodge their taxes. On tax day we will deliver a tax bill on behalf of the American people asking Bank of America to pay its fair share. |
| Monday, 18 Apr 2011, 12:00 PM |
Tax Day – Make them Pay – 211 miles away
Bank of America at 6th ave & Main St.
15 registered participant(s) (50 maximum)
707 N Main Street
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Directions: Join us on the sidewalk in front of Bank of America, do not block driveways or the front door. Do not park on BofA’s property. There is plenty of side road parking. Remain respectful and orderly but chant and show your signs. Most of all have fun and make a respectful message to our community and to BofA. Thank you.
Hosted by Betty B
Description Join us to show Bank of America that our community wants them to pay their fair share of taxes. If corporations like BofA paid their share, their would be no deficit. Their would be no cuts in medicare, education, and other important programs. The right thing to do is pay their taxes!!! |
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| Monday, 18 Apr 2011, 4:30 PM |
Tax Day – Make Them Pay – 215 miles away
Pritchard Park
46 registered participant(s) (1000 maximum)
Patton and College Streets
Asheville, NC 28801
Directions: Pritchard Park is located at the west side of Asheville.
Hosted by Cheryl Orengo, Tondra Bowers, Lisa Soledad Almaraz, Emily Bernstein, Sharon Schuster
Description Our country is NOT BROKE, we are in an economic crisis – not because of the middle class or the lower class, not because of excessive spending but because of corporate freeloaders who do not pay their fair share thus creating a loss in tax revenues. Our government now plans to make huge cuts in the services we need but if everyone paid their fair share that would not be necessary. Come on out on Monday, April 18 and SPEAK OUT! This event will involve street theatre, an open podium and a delivery of a “symbolic” tax bill to a national bank nearby.
Because of a loss of tax revenues our elected leaders are planning to make huge cuts to the national budget which will affect families, workers and the human services we all need.
Right before the end of work on Tax Day, April 18th, we will gather in Pritchard park and give attendees the podium to speak out about their lives and the changes that need to be made in our government for families and workers who are the backbone of this |
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What do you expect? Republicans tell you what they are going to do and yet people still vote for them. Bush told everyone he was going to invade Iraq and yet people voted for him. The Tea party candidates said they were going to go up to Washington and get rid of government spending on the poor the only spending they seem to object to. Billions for corporate welfare, bogus wars and useless defense projects is fine with them it is the single mothers that they are up in arms about. So why is anyone surprised that the GOP is trying to convince the illiterate masses that removing tax breaks and subsidies for oil companies and other large corporations such as WALMART is the same as raising taxes. These guys have been picking your pocket for decades so now they feel they have a right to it, talk about entitlements. But beyond this when the government subsidies a company it distorts the system. WALMART gets four billion dollars a year as a direct subside ( from the book free lunch). They use that money to dominate the market by selling cheaper. This puts companies that do not get this infusion of cash from Uncle Sam at a decided disadvantage. The only time the government should help private enterprise is when it is a new field of endeavor and that help should end once the sector becomes profitable. It should never be given to highly profitable companies like WALMART or oil conglomerates.