Citizens urged to TAKE ACTION to keep the tea party going 

Thousands of grassroots activists from all across the state converged on the North Carolina State Legislative Building in Raleigh Wednesday to send a simple message: "No Increase in North Carolina Taxes!!!"

Activists signed letters to Gov. Bev Perdue and members of the General Assembly stating their principled opposition to the $1 billion in new taxes already proposed by Gov. Perdue and the North Carolina State Senate.

A Protest Against the proposed Billion
Dollar State Tax Increase
Wednesday June 3rd
Downtown Raleigh
Starring
Fox News’s Mary Katharine Ham
&“Joe The Plumber”

Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina will host a “Take Back Our State” Tea Party with Mary Katharine Ham of FOX News and Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbachr to protest the proposed $1 billion increase in state taxes currently under consideration by the North Carolina General Assembly.

Americans for Prosperity and the Take Back Our State Coalition are excited to announce that Fox News’s Mary Katharine Ham, the "Shining Fresh Face of the Antistatist Party,” will help lead the Take Back Our State Tea Party taxpayer protest at the General Assembly on June 3rd.

RALEIGH-The North Carolina chapter of the grassroots free-market group Americans for Prosperity (AFP-NC) today applauded North Carolina State Representative Mark Hilton (96th District) for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” By doing so, Hilton joins over 160 lawmakers on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”