Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Tax

Cathy Resmer (of 802 Online) writes in Seven Days about the Vermont chapter of FreedomWorks:

"Vermonters have a new ally in the battle against Big Government" - so began a recent press release announcing the arrival of FreedomWorks Vermont, a new local chapter of the national anti-tax organization. State Director Rob Roper, former media director for failed Senatorial candidate Jack McMullen, was on hand at the Statehouse last Thursday to introduce himself and answer questions from the press.
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Never heard of FreedomWorks? Understandable. The group, which supports President Bush's tax cuts, the privatization of Social Security and the elimination of the so-called "death tax," is less than a year old. It was launched after a July 2004 merger of conservative think tanks Citizens for a Sound Economy and Empower America.

CSE was headed by former House Republican Leader Dick Armey of Texas and C. Boyden Gray, advisor to the first President Bush. The two men co-chair FreedomWorks along with one-time Republican presidential candidate Jack Kemp. Empower America was run by values czar William Bennett; Donald Rumsfeld was a board member.
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[Roper] says he'd like to focus on attacking the "pro-big-government" agenda of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, the Conservation Law Foundation and the Peace and Justice Center. These groups, said Roper, "are taking away our freedoms little bit by little bit."

Yeah, I'd hate to lose my freedom to drink polluted water, breath toxic air and be attacked by giant mutant tomatoes.

Okay, that last one would be kinda cool in a campy, Saturday afternoon movie sort of way.

ntodd