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Where To Party And Protest On Tax Day
We’re not going to get all uppity about what is fair and what is not on Tax Day. We pay our fare share to Uncle Sam, and in return, we just hope that he lets us stay around for another year. However, there’s a lot of people expected to voice their opinion today at a Tax Day Tea Party. There's expected to be over 2,000 events around the country, so if you want to protest, go for it.
If you’ve been laid off this year or are just sick and tired of shelling out the cash to programs you don’t believe in, here’s a couple places you may want to express yourself. Just leave the bullhorn at home—we’ve run out of painkillers and have nothing to relieve a potential migraine.
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French Farmers Flock To Parisian Protest
As if the herds of tourists weren't enough: French farmers feeling fleeced by fuel costs and falling prices took their flocks to the Champ de Mars yesterday to plead their case for a government bailout.
This week, officials passed a $316 million (€250 million) package to help farmers, one fifth of which would be shorn off for sheep farmers and breeders specifically. But reps for the sheep breeders union say it's not enough to combat the effects of the economic downturn on the farmers, who pull down an average salary of $10,000 a year.
For visitors to the Eiffel Tower, which sits on the Champ de Mars, the herd of sheep probably wasn't the biggest concern: It was the estimated 800 farmers who attended the protest that probably made Paris' most distinctive landmark especially wild and wooly.
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