{"id":6638,"date":"2010-08-17T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2010-08-17T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:54:39","slug":"bell-city-council-illegally-raised-taxes-increases-tea-party-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6638\/bell-city-council-illegally-raised-taxes-increases-tea-party-sentiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell City Council Illegally Raised Taxes; Increases Tea Party Sentiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tea Party movement is going viral.\u00a0 As reported earlier, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/61-state-issues\/688-a-tale-of-two-california-cities-provides-bellwether-for-golden-states-future\" target=\"_blank\">the City of Bell, CA is now Exhibit A in corrupt government<\/a>.\u00a0 Thousands of the majority Hispanic population in Bell protested outside city hall after it was revealed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/17\/video-ask-not-for-whom-the-bell-tolls\/ \" target=\"_blank\">city council raised local property taxes 50% beyond the legal limit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a spot-on analysis of how the Tea Party movement\u2019s call for limited \u2013 and constitutional \u2013 government is starting to bubble up in a growing number of communities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When people wonder why the Tea Party and other grassroots political movements start, this is a great example.\u00a0 Government at any level that grows haughty, insular, and corrupt generates a reaction towards accountability and more modest models of governance.\u00a0 I\u2019m certain that the protesters in Bell don\u2019t see themselves as part of the Tea Party movement, but the two have more similarities than differences.\u00a0 They\u2019re angry at the local model of big government arrogance and at having their pockets picked \u2014 especially considering the relatively low average household income in this Southern California community, at just under $30,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T: Hot Air Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tea Party movement is going viral.\u00a0 As reported earlier, the City of Bell, CA is now Exhibit A in corrupt government.\u00a0 Thousands of the majority Hispanic population in Bell protested outside city hall after it was revealed that the city council raised local property taxes 50% beyond the legal limit. Here\u2019s a spot-on analysis [&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":[1717,351,59,761,71],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-city-of-bell","tag-corruption","tag-deficit","tag-public-employee-unions","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","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=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6641,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions\/6641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}