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Some communities question if they can function along the Spartan economic guidelines touted by Tea Party activists. One place those municipal leaders might want to examine is Colorado's second-largest city. It's a laboratory in draconian fiscal conservatism.

Despite the recession and Tea Party cries of "Taxed Enough Already," a surprising number of communities across the country voted to keep their tax burdens at current levels.

The Tea Party faithful weren't feeling the love Thursday in Philadelphia's Love Park. Disgruntled citizens gathered there and at nearby City Hall and Independence Hall, where the Founding Fathers crafted our system of government, to vent their frustrations about the federal government.

For most of us, the stress of filing our income tax return is subsiding and we can get on with the usual business of figuring out how to pay our regular monthly bills. But what will surely continue beyond tax day is the strange co-opting of the Boston Tea Party by the anti-tax Tea Party...

As the Tea Party Express reached its final stop in Washington's Freedom Plaza, the focus was on taxes, but all eyes were set on November's elections.

Critics of the Obama stimulus programs are calling for an end to recession-fighting spending, arguing that it isn't needed anymore. But are these critics repeating the mistake of FDR's opponents in 1937, calling for balanced budgets that could result in a double-dip recession?