Protests over state and federal taxes continue, even as the federal income tax deadline has come and gone. John Locke Foundation experts will play a role as Tea Party tax protests crop up across the state. Vice President for Outreach Becki Gray headed to Jacksonville for a weekend Tea Party chronicled in the Daily News. Meanwhile, reports of media coverage from the Tax Day tea parties continue to arrive. The Carteret County News-Times noted the role Karen Palasek, Director of Educational and Academic Programs, played in a Morehead City event. N.C. History Project Director Troy Kickler earned media coverage from the Elizabeth City Daily Advance (Dr. Troy Kickler with the North Carolina History Project shared the history of political protest and dissent, particularly in northeastern North Carolina) and Washington Daily News
(Troy Kickler, a historian with the John Locke Foundation, told the crowd that objecting to taxes is an American tradition older than America itself.
“What you are doing is reviving an American and North Carolinian tradition,” he said.). President John Hood highlighted JLF Tea Party participation within one of his regular contributions to National Review Online’s main blog, “The Corner.” (The same blog post also showcased the work of Legal and Regulatory Policy Analyst Daren Bakst to discuss the problems associated with carbon dioxide regulation.)