In recent years on Tax Day (observed this year on Tuesday because April 15 came on a Sunday), Tea Party groups have held rallies in the Bay area to tout their agenda of reducing excessive federal spending (forget the fact that under Barack Obama, Americans are paying the smallest share of their income for taxes since 1958).
But this Tax Day in Florida saw groups affiliated with the pro-Labor organization Americans Want to Work holding rallies across the Sunshine State, spurred on by the Occupy movement’s attacks on inequality. Protest sites included the U.S. Post Office on 1st Avenue North in St. Petersburg and Curtis Hixon Park in Tampa, from which 15 activists marched to the Bank of America building on Kennedy and Tampa streets.
This article appears in Apr 19-25, 2012.
