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Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 4/15/10
Santa Fe is among cities across the country where a Tax Day tea party is planned today, the federal income-tax filing deadline.
Local speakers are expected during the event, set for 5 to 7 p.m. on the Santa Fe Plaza, an announcement said.
"The Santa Fe T.E.A. (Taxed Enough Already) Party is a local nonpartisan grass-roots group of citizens who are giving concerned voters throughout Northern New Mexico an opportunity to voice their concerns about lack of fiscal responsibility at all levels of government, wasteful spending of the voters' tax dollars, the expanding and unsustainable debt, and the unconstitutional expansion of the Federal Government into areas delegated to the states, and individuals," said a news release issued by Shelyl Bohlander.
Organizers are encouraging participants to bring donations for the Food Depot. For more information, visit www.santafeteaparty.blogspot.com.
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., on Wednesday issued a statement in advance of Tax Day highlighting a study by Citizens for Tax Justice, that says 99 percent of working families in New Mexico received a tax cut in 2009 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which the Northern New Mexico congressman supported.
He noted that among the tax cuts was a "Making Work Pay" tax credit that gave more than 94 percent of working individuals a $400 refundable tax credit.