Anti-tax 'tea party' could draw crowd to downtown Syracuse
by Mike McAndrew / The Post-Standard
Wednesday April 15, 2009, 6:14 AM
Syracuse, NY -- Joanne Wilder has never protested anything in public before. She's never boxed with City Hall, let alone Washington.
"I've been a quiet little person my whole life," she said.
But today in downtown Syracuse, the 60-year-old great-grandmother will lead a Tax Day Tea Party protest against the spending policies of the Obama administration and Congress.
After a lifetime of working, paying taxes and raising three children on her own, Wilder is struggling.
She said she retired on disability from M&T Bank three years ago after undergoing knee replacement and back surgeries. She lives on her Social Security and disability benefits. Last year, she petitioned the bankruptcy court for protection from creditors.
She said she did not have to pay federal income taxes last year because her income was too low.
"I don't want to see this country turn into a welfare, nanny state, where we stand in line for groceries, and we're in welfare lines, and in socialized medicine lines," Wilder said.
Social Security and disability payments are part of the welfare state, so Wilder seems to be willing to be homeless.
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This is so typical. She is the perfect portrait of a sucker so-called conservative. Exactly where does she think her disability, social security and protection from creditors after filing from bankruptsy come from? The good fairy? TAXES....WHICH SHE DOESN'T PAY. She really should return the money. It's mine because I am a proud liberal who actually PAYS taxes...and I don't whine about it either.
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