Why doesn't the Tea Party form their own political party?
This is a very wise thing the Tea Party is doing, for several reasons: 1. Creating a 2nd Conservative party will only split the votes between them and the GOP, resulting in guaranteed wins for the Democrat Party, which is hostile to the ideas of fiscal sanity and reducing spending that the Tea Party favors. If we take your Green Party you mentioned as the example, the Green Party cost Al Gore the 2000 election. Ralph Nader siphoned off enough votes to keep Al Gore out of the White House. The same thing happened even early in 1992 with Ross Perot and the Reform Party. Their platform was being fiscally conservative, and they siphoned off enough votes from Bush to put Clinton into the White House. So if you want to advance your cause, forming your own party is exactly the wrong thing to do. 2. Republicans historically have been the party of wanting to reduce gov't and gov't spending. This is a natural fit, and in fact, returns the GOP back to it's Conservative roots.
Has the Republican Party become a national disgrace?
Same here. Although I am a little left of center a couple of my favorite politicians were Republicans. They would roll over in their graves if they saw the state of affairs today. Now I don't so much vote Democrat as I vote against the Christian fanatics.
Why do people say that Reagan lowered taxes?
Classic towing the line, without bothering to look at their own taxes. The Tea Party does this now. I thought they really had a point, but figured I should see how all of this applies to myself before I get on a soap box at a tea rally. I looked at my tax returns going back to 1996. Over that 14 year time frame my salary went from about 28k to 70k, and the entire time I have paid 14% of income in Federal taxes. Bush Sr.? 14%. Clinton? 14%. W. Bush 14%. Oh right, last year they did drop to 11% when I bought a house. Funny, the only time they go down and suddenly there's protest. From white people. Protesting a black president. What a shocker. So based on those hard numbers, I don't see what tea partiers are on about. 14% is cool with me. Let me know when there is actually something to whine about and I'll slap on a baseball cap, crack open an MGD in a black can, and act like a Hulk Hogan fan at a 1980's monster truck rally.
What are the main goals of the tea party movement?
For starters" http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2009/03... & in general: http://www.google.com/search?q=main+goal...
Which political party wants more/higher taxes?
No, you have that all backwards. Democrats tend to be left leaning liberals. I am a liberal. Some liberals want things like universal healthcare and universal higher education and for the government to better regulate the corporations so that they do not exploit workers and destroy the environment. We want higher taxes on meg rich people and high power corporations because the top richest 1% of America has the same amount of money as the lower 99%. We want the wealth to be better evenly distributed. Republicans tend to be Conservatives. They want the government to be as small as possible. Corporations send out lobbyists to wine and dine and pay off the Conservatives to fight their causes. They want Capitalism to be absolutely free and unregulated. They want everyone to basically fend for themselves, which means less public programs, which in turn means less Taxes. The TEA party is an ultra conservative group. The Tea stands for Taxed Enough Already. Conservatives hate taxes and want a small government that only goes to war and does general Federal policing matters.