The anti-tax,anti-big government Tea Party movement takes inspiration from the anti-tax protesters just before the American Revolution who threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell questioned the U.S.Treasury Department's latest aid to AIG, "Wouldn't the treasury,and the taxpayer, have had more leverage over AIG's executive contracts before providing another $30 billion in tax money for them,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

Financial reform, with the unemployment extension and another measure to provide small business tax benefits, are the three major legislative objectives the president and Democratic leaders agreed to focus on before the long summer recess.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19