{"id":12180,"date":"2011-11-29T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12180"},"modified":"2011-11-29T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:50:23","slug":"richmond-tea-party-gets-taxed-while-occupiers-protest-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12180\/richmond-tea-party-gets-taxed-while-occupiers-protest-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Tea Party Gets Taxed While Occupiers Protest for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a story that serves as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/11\/28\/richmond-tea-party-claims-to-be-treated-unfairly-by-occupy-friendly-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\">great response<\/a> to people who say there\u2019s no difference between the Tea Party and Occupy movements.\u00a0 The Tea Party in Richmond, VA, got a business license, rally permits, and paid $10,000 for the privilege of exercising their First Amendment rights to speech and assembly.\u00a0 The Occupy Richmond mob, on the other hand, squatted on public property for days without jumping through any of the legal hoops that ensure the health and safety of a civilized society.\u00a0 When the Tea Party complained, the City of Richmond sent them an audit claiming the group <em>failed to pay excise taxes<\/em> for its events.<\/p>\n<p>What hypocrisy!\u00a0 Lawbreakers are allowed to devalue public goods like parks while law-abiding citizens who follow the rules are sent an extra bill to pick up the tab.\u00a0 If local government officials aren\u2019t careful they are going to teach all Americans that the rule of law only applies when you want it to.\u00a0 If that\u2019s the governing philosophy going forward, it\u2019s time to renegotiate the social contract.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Fox News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a story that serves as a great response to people who say there\u2019s no difference between the Tea Party and Occupy movements.\u00a0 The Tea Party in Richmond, VA, got a business license, rally permits, and paid $10,000 for the privilege of exercising their First Amendment rights to speech and assembly.\u00a0 The Occupy Richmond mob, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[503,3118,1993,3219,71,28,704],"class_list":["post-12180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-free-speech","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-protest","tag-richmond","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12184,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions\/12184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}