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ONE ROLL SILENT
RUSS: LIVESILFILM: VO
(1:13)TAXES - 1 TIME 1:09
A knowledgeable man of the Colonial period -- Ben
Franklin -- wrote once bhat "nothiing in life is
certain but death ani taxes."The Dallas County Civil jww Liberltarian Party is
in no position to protest the former, but it
d finitely is opposed to taxes -- to ihat it calls
"the welfare-warfare state which treats the taxpayer
as an everlasting gold mine". A group of the DCLP
members walked in front of the downtown federal
building, handing out their printed protests called
"Poston Tea Party $fTax protest." Along with the
printed matter went a symbolic tea bag, again
referring to that famous tea-dumping event in Boston
Harbor 200-years ago. The wmwEmi man with the
Early American look about him is Dave .ielbter, a
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Taxes], script, December 17, 1973, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1910724/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.