Sherry Jensen misstates in her April 23 letter that 95 percent of Americans will receive a tax cut; this is impossible since there are 138 million individual taxpayers out of a population of 300 million (based on 2006 IRS data).

Obama claims 95 percent of working families will receive a 2009 tax cut of a whopping $400 for individuals and $800 for couples.

I was excited to see TEA party protests around the United States, and I believe the parties aren't just about the local, state and federal tax burden but include people's concerns about the unconstitutional expansion of the federal government.

Social Security was an important issue that opened the door for big government. FDR feared the Supreme Court would rule that the Constitution didn't permit federal taxfinanced oldage insurance. While the Social Security bill was in Congress, the court invalidated the Railroad Retirement Act, which resembled Social Security.

Roosevelt decided to subdue the court and on Feb. 5, 1937, asked Congress to enact a bill empowering him to appoint one additional Supreme Court justice for every one who turned 70 and didn't retire, for a maximum of six, thus enlarging the Supreme Court from nine justices to up to 15. Not surprisingly, Social Security was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1937.

This opened the door for the next huge federal program, Medicare. The federal government has expanded its power ignoring the limits defined by Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution.

Obama and the socialists in Congress want to mandate a myriad of new government programs sold to Americans as "for our own good" but ultimately result in increased government control of our lives while taking more of the money we earn.

There are currently resolutions in 28 states asserting state sovereignty in response to the bloated, ill-conceived stimulus bill.

Resolutions passed in four states and failed in two states.

Richard Browne: The "lemmings" are starting to fight back, and they don't just watch Fox News.

Keep both parties going and vote no on Prop 1A, a 2year extension of new state tax increases. Rob Kaplan Thousand Oaks