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[edit] Tax Day Events

Does your state do something for Tax Day? All over the country, Libertarians can use this opportunity to do outreach on a day that Americans are most outraged about what their government takes from them.

[edit] Examples

LP News Jun97 - Tax protest day: Libertarians find public supportive Most Libertarians handed out bogus million dollar bills that highlight excessive ... As a prelude to the Tax Day protest, the Broward LP hosted a "Thomas ... http://www.lp.org/lpn/9706-tax.html

LP News Jun98 - Libertarians across America rally on Tax Day The original Libertarian Million Dollar Bill got plenty of action on Tax Day, ... who handed out "fake" Million Dollar bills on Tax Day in Salisbury. ... http://www.lp.org/lpn/9806-tax-day.x.html

LPVA - News April 15th is known as “Tax Day” because it is the day that federal income ... “Million Dollar Bills” were handed to drivers dropping off their tax returns. ... http://www.lpva.com/Archives/News/2005/20050416taxDAy.shtml

LPVA - News Lark was interviewed about the "Million Dollar Bills" and what the Jefferson Area ... "I assume the reporter used the material in a story about Tax Day, ... http://www.lpva.com/Archives/News/ 2002/20020415JAL-TaxProtest.shtml

IOWA: April 15, 1999 Using Tax Filing Day to Spread the Word Two members of LPJC stood at the Iowa City Post Office from 10 pm until midnight, telling people that the Libertarian Party wanted to help them lower their taxes. Christopher McDonald and Christy Ann Welty distributed an outreach tool called The Million Dollar Bill. http://lpjc.home.att.net/projects/apr1599.html

The Libertarian Party of Minnesota will hand out $1,000,000.00 bills to late income-tax filers at the Main Minneapolis Post Office, 100 South 1st Street, Minneapolis, Thursday evening, April 15th from 5:00-9:00 P.M. "Well, not real $1,000,000.00 bills," admitted State Chair Charles Test. http://www.lpmn.org/pr_990414.php

The Libertarian Party of Tennessee... a change in federal taxation and spending, they’re going to have to do more than just honk and chuckle at “million dollar bill” handouts on Tax Day. ... http://www.lptn.net/news/articles/94/

NC Tax Day Protests If you are interested in organizing a Tax Day Protest in your town, the LPNC can help you. We can provide Million Dollar Bill flyers made by the national ... http://www.lpnc.org/tarheel_lib/ articles/april_1999/taxday.html

Tax Day '05 ITHACA, NY -- Michael Badnarik will be our honored guest for a series of events - join us for one or all! Cornell debate on the Constitution 4/14, CU Libertarians Student Get-Together 4/14, Tax Tax Protest and Dinner 4/15, Radio appearance 4/15, Constitution Class at Cornell 4/16, Free State Project Dinner 4/16

Manhattan LP Annual Tax Day Protest Date: date of filing, usually April 15th, Tax Day Location: James Farley General Post Office, 8th Avenue at 33rd Street, Manhattan "We sweat and literally give our blood and our life to earn our money. Then half of it is snatched away by the government mafia--we work HALF THE YEAR just to pay off these government thugs! That's why we owe it to ourselves to protest this immoral crime, which literally tears at the fabric of our society, our values, and our families. Meet us at the post office tonight to hand out ibertarian Party tax reform literature and Million Dollar Bills,' which llustrate how our government wastes $1 million dollars of our precious hard-earned money every three seconds."

[edit] Sources for Tax Day outreach materials

The LP's store, http://www.lp.org/store/store.shtml, which used to sell the Million Dollar Bills, has been suspended until they find a vendor to handle it. The LP of California used to host it at http://www.ca.lp.org/lpc-tax-day.html but that page was also discontinued.

Here's a copy that the NY party saved before it disappeared from elsewhere: http://ny.lp.org/activism/TaxDay/lp-tax-day-mdb.pdf

Here's a "62 cents of your dollar" alternative from Bureaucrash: http://bureaucrash.com/blogs/propaganda/000716.shtml

Here's Bureaucrash's "Tax Slavery Sucks" campaign: http://bureaucrash.com/blogs/propaganda/000777.shtml