Vent Your Tax Day Rage At Lunchtime Bryant Park Protest Today

Counter-protesters use a "mad hatter" tea party theme at a Tea Party tax day protest in Washington Friday. (AP/Elaine Thompson)

As part of a nationwide protest today, resentful taxpayers will gather in Bryant Park (corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue) at 12:30 p.m. to call attention to corporations who get sweetheart tax breaks from the government. Organized in part by Move On, the demonstration—not to be confused with the conservative "tea party" rallies—will demand that "big bank tax dodgers" like Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs "pay their fair share of taxes. At the end of the event, local residents will deliver Bank of America with a tax bill." These are trying times for Bank of America, which has also had to spend money to fend off a 1,784 billion, trillion dollar lawsuit.

"We are protesting on Tax Day because corporate bank tax dodgers have a responsibility to our community and our nation to pay their fair share," said local Move On member Roger Nelson in a statement. "We pay our taxes. Big banks should too." For those feeling nostalgic, here's what the first big NYC tea party tax day protest looked like back in 2009.

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By John Del Signore in News on April 18, 2011 10:35 AM

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Ms. Pants

I kinda feel like if you want to be a politician, you should just go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $2m (inflation and all). If you want to be a politician, you are automatically a sleaze ass. Boo. F.

That said, I work at a tax firm and I am so freaking glad the deadline is finally here and I can go back to 40 hour weeks instead of 80. The money is great, but I really, really like sleeping.

armchair_warrior

!@#$ the middle class, !@#$ the rich and !@#$ the political whores who keeps getting voted in. nothing changes, wasted tax dollars on stupid programs. If they spent the tax dollars better we wouldn't have the problems we have.

anyway whats up with people having kids getting tax breaks? kids are drain on resources, instead they should be tax more like china!!! more resource drains you have the more you should pay, same goes for pets.

Guest

Nothing changes because people are choosing between two different evils. Try and tell them to vote differently, and say the same bullshit over and over "But I want my vote to count, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH". Hardly anyone in this country votes with their brain. They vote for who they think is going to win, so that they can walk around with some air of superiority about voting for the winner. As if they themselves won something. In the end, we all lose to the two party system that is, on a daily basis, dividing and polarizing this country. Same thing happened right before the Civil War. Yay for history repeating itself because we couldn't learn from the past.

AIG_Quant

They are resentful because they are tired of having their tax money being wasted on unnecessary government spending that includes several wars and bailouts for the big banks. Also the large corporations such as GE, which had billions in profits, hardly paid any taxes this year.

The Middle Class gets shafted once again!