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Vent Your Tax Day Rage At Lunchtime Bryant Park Protest Today
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John Del Signore
Published Apr 18, 2011
Modified Apr 18, 2011
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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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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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