Busting the tax myth

I keep hearing Republicans and other conservatives complain about the Democrats "always" raising their taxes. In fact, the tea party movement held scores of events around the country on tax day, April 15.

Funny, then, that a USA Today report has found that "Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman's presidency."

That's right. The they've paid less in taxes during the Obama administration than they paid during either Bush administration or their sacred Reagan administration.

And don't tell me that the tea partiers are upset about spending, since George W. Bush wasted no time turning Bill Clinton's record surplus into a record deficit. Where were the tea partiers then?

So now why exactly are they protesting?

The real reasons are not so easy to say out loud, are they?