Well, who saw this coming?
As Thursday is Tax Day, celebrities of the Tea Party movement are gathering in Washington to throw up their arms in disgust.
FreedomWorks’ Dick Armey will attend, as well as American for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist. Lawmakers Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., will head to Freedom Plaza for a tax reform rally. And Victoria Jackson, who appeared on “Saturday Night Live” from 1986 to 1993, is scheduled as the entertainment. (That’s the best you could do?)
But because not every tax hater is going to be able to make it to the real Washington, D.C., the folks at Online Tax Revolt have created another forum for people to protest: a fully online march to Washington, avatars included. (For those not fluent in nerd: An avatar is a graphic that represents a person).
Here’s how it works: Users have to sign up and give his or her current location. Then they choose a male or female avatar. Men have the option to have their avatar resemble Ronald Reagan or Uncle Sam, or it can just represent the average working Joe. Female avatars can be dressed as Tea Party patriots, veterans or medical professionals (wearing scrubs), among other outfits. The avatars, then, will make a digital trek across the United States on Tax Day.
No word on whether virtual police will be standing by in case the virtual protests get virtually out of hand.
To inspire participation, the group created avatars of tax revolt leaders as well. A slim and trim Norquist and Armey are on the site, along with a balding RNC Chairman Michael Steele avatar and a barely recognizable Mike Huckabee.
“Please note the avatars for these leaders are not exact representations of their likenesses,” organizers warned.
More than 260,000 had signed up for the online march as of Wednesday, according to OnlineTaxRevolt.com.
