Policy experts, lawmakers, businesses, and constituents from across the country have continued to express their well justified opposition to the idea of a government-run cap and trade system in the U.S. Currently, a new version of a cap and trade based bill is being considered.

Updated: now includes Salt Lake City In addition to the D.C. Tax Day Tea Party down the street at the Washington Monument, there were hundreds of tax day protests around the country.  Here's a few reports from our members and their local tea parties: Salt Lake City, Utah

I find it rather interesting to read about how President Obama and many of his Democratic cronies are desperately pushing for financial regulatory reform. It makes me wonder why such legislation has become such a pressing priority. After all, both President Obama, and many Democratic lawmakers have financially benefited from the likes of Wall Street’s heavy hitting investment houses such as Goldman Sachs.

Florida FreedomWorks members and allies - please see below an urgent call to action from our friends at the South Florida Tea Party:HJR37, the Florida Health Care Freedom Act, and SCR10, the Balanced Federal Budget Bill, both passed the Rules Committee!  The Florida Health Care Freedom Act will exempt Floridians and from buying health insurance and Obamare.  The Balance Budget Bill will put presssure on Congress to balance the budget and calls for a limited constitutional convention if they fail to act.

A group of about 30 miners from Ohio who had traveled to D.C. to speak-out against cap and trade as part of FreedomWorks Take America Back Tax Day Tea Party activities decided to drop in on Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH).Check out the video clip!

House and Senate Democrats are attempting to shove a massive 1,408 page financial regulation reform bill through Congress that grants unlimited taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street.  Every single Republican in the Senate has signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expressing their opposition to the bill. The letter urges that bipartisan negotiations take place on the issue of financial regulation reform in order to prevent another financial crisis.

Cap and trade remains to be one of the most contentious pieces of proposed domestic legislation in U.S. history. Specifically, the economics of cap and trade, and the scientific grounds on which it is being justified, have both served as the primary basis for its contentiousness. Recently, Sen.

Some members of the media and public figures have desperately attempted to label Americans that attend Tea Party protests as racists or neo-Nazis displaying swastikas. Chris Matthews has asserted that only white people attend Tea Party protests,They’re monochromatic, right? … every picture I see shows them to be … they’re all white. All of them, every single one of them is white.

One of the groups that have been hit the hardest by the current economic recession is young people. While the national unemployment rate remains at 9.7 percent, the unemployment rate among 16-to-24 year olds remains steady at 18.8 percent.