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The Tea Party And The Black Lives Matter Movement

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In the reading relative to social movements, the TEA party and the Black lives matter movement are discussed. The TEA party which stands for “Taxed Enough Already” is a conservative American political movement. The members of this movement called for 3 majors’ things according to the first 3 articles of the reading packages. The first one is the abolition of the Checks and balance because they believes that constitution is sacred and that nobody even the government should be above law. The use of the checks and Balances is placing the government on top of the constitution and place too much power in their hands. Therefore, they believed that this growing power of the government has reach a level where it threatens basics freedoms of the citizen. In the second article, the TEA party stands for a free market system in which the prices of goods and service are freely set by the competition between the demand and the offer. Also, they believe in a lower taxes system where people will be able to fully enjoy they money and spend it as they wish. In the third article, the TEA party, introduced the Penny Plan as a solution to the current US national debt. This program will consist of cutting the federal spend of 1% for a period of 10 years which will reduce debt of 4, 5 trillion for the next 10 years. The reading by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson is more like a more detailed version of what has been said in the first three articles. Their main preoccupations are government

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