Tea Party Tots: America's Youngest Politicos Protest Taxes (PHOTOS)

Over 2,500 HuffPost citizen journalists have helped provide comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos and video.

The tax-paying public weren't the only ones protesting on Wednesday. Those who still keep their savings in a piggy bank were also out in force. Our citizen photojournalists, who sent in over a thousand pictures from Tea Parties across the country, had an eye for children eager to voice their political grievances. The best shots of America's youngest politicos have been compiled in the following slideshow and you can see all thousand-plus images here.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The tax-paying public weren't the only ones protesting on Wednesday. Those who still keep their savings in a piggy bank were out in force. Children appeared as eager to voice their grievances as their older counterparts--photo by Aggie Yeakel in Panama City, FL.

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[MJJM]

12:03 PM on 04/19/2009

These BITTER Bag people probably teaches racial hate to their kids!!

[weewah]

10:14 PM on 04/17/2009

During pro-prop 8 rallys I would say that at least half of the people I saw in attendance were 16 or younger. There was often a furor that set in where parents didn't seem to know or care where their kids were. Kids would be chanting with their posters while stepping out into the street without looking. There was almost no accountability.

[gina51]

10:10 PM on 04/17/2009

How terrible for a parent to tell a child she or he is hated because they don't agree with something they probably don't understand. You should be ashamed of yourself. I don't hate your daughter but i"m having a problem with you telling her people hate her

[rabiddog6708]

08:48 PM on 04/17/2009

CONservatives. Only those making more than $250,000 a year will have a 3% tax increase and the lot of them are acting like it is the end of the world. They should look back during Eisenhower's Presidency to see what the top marginal tax rate was.....it was 91%......when Bill Clinton took office it was 31%......Clinton raised it to 39.6% and left office with a 123 billion dollar surplus that Dubya squandered very quickly.....and he lowered the top marginal tax rate down to 35%. These guys have no clue how to govern and always want someone else to pick up the tab for all their spending.

[grata2ude]

07:59 PM on 04/17/2009

If A Child Lives With. . .

by Dorothy Law Nolte

If a child lives with criticism. . . . . . . .he learns to condemn.

If a child lives with hostility. . . . . . . . he learns to fight.

If a child lives with fear. . . . . . . .he learns to be apprehensive.

If a child lives with jealousy. . . . . . . .he learns to feel guilt.

If a child lives with tolerance. . . . . . . .he learns to be patient.

If a child lives with encouragement . . . . . . . .he learns to be confident.

If a child lives with praise. . . . . . . .he learns to be appreciative.

If a child lives with acceptance. . . . . . . .he learns to love.

If a child lives with approval. . . . . . . .he learns to like himself.

If a child lives with recognition . . . . . . . .he learns that it is good to have a goal.

If a child lives with honesty. . . . . . . .he learns what truth is.

If a child lives with fairness. . . . . . . .he learns justice.

If a child lives with security. . . . . . . .he learns to trust in himself and others

[grata2ude]

07:53 PM on 04/17/2009

What if something had happened and a riot broke out? Having those young kids there was risky and could have been tragic.

Let the kids be kids. There will be plenty of time for them to get involved in politics and should be allowed to grow into their views, not brainwashed at such young ages.

[LesaLesa]

07:49 PM on 04/17/2009

This is why prejudice thinking don't die. Tainting and corrupting the innocent.

[baddadd49]

07:23 PM on 04/17/2009

I took my kids and she was very proud to be there with me, we live in California and we have been watching the schools turn into liberal indoctrination centers, so showing my daughter what to do when she disagrees with government is my duty as a parent and an American. When she saw on the news the way she and I were depicted by the liberal media she was disgusted, she said I dont hate black people and I dont hate Obama, so I said they dont care, you dont agree with them so they hate you, to them you are the enemy, she said but were all Americans, I said to them that doesnt matter. thats what you libs are about HATE.

[Tugar]

07:48 PM on 04/17/2009

WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE YOUR DAUGHTER ON A PROTEST AGAINST GEORGE BUSHES BIG SPENDING BEFORE HE LEFT OFFICE. YOU KNOW, THE GUY THAT WAS IN OFFICE WHEN YOUR SCHOOLS BEGAN TAKING A TURN FOR THE WORSE !

[grata2ude]

07:56 PM on 04/17/2009

You told your child she was hated???? OH MY GOD and you are proud of that??? What you subjected that child to was more hateful than any news story.

[Martha12]

07:11 PM on 04/17/2009

250,000 people in total, for every single "tea party", out of a population of
300 , 000,000 !

Why that's a whopping...drum roll please..........0.08333333333333334% of the population!!

That's hardly a "national movement"! What a joke!

Sweeping the nation........please!

[w8aminute]

08:56 PM on 04/17/2009

Hope they didn't count people like me that went to take pictures of all the hate signs....of course, there were only 200 people according to our local right-wing paper here in St Augustine (America's oldest city).

Don't get too upset. When I took vacation to go to Columbia SC to 'get out the vote' last january, one of my canvassing partners during the week was a para-legal from KY. She told me her dad first took her canvassing for Reagan when she was a toddler....so don't worry, it doesn't always have to have 'long lasting' effects.

[HC4BO]

08:59 PM on 04/17/2009

More like sweeping the neighborhood ...

[DoTheMath]

07:04 PM on 04/17/2009

Using kids as props - awe. Well, in this case, the kids were probably no less clueless on the issues than their parents. Fox & Co used the parents; the parents used the kids. How cute.

[DoTheMath]

07:57 PM on 04/17/2009

make that: no more clueless

[LoveAlaska]

06:24 PM on 04/17/2009

Isn't this just disgusting, these kids being used as pawns, must be republican trademark aka PALIN.

[Cycadeoidea]

08:31 PM on 04/17/2009

These classless idiots will do anything to pad their numbers. Nothing but the stupid--and their unfortunate children.

[Yamunation]

06:12 PM on 04/17/2009

This is nuts. I'd never make my kids fight my battles for me! How can you make your kid do this, before they are even old enough to form an opinion? It just makes the parents seem like zealots

[1088]

05:54 PM on 04/17/2009

Racism and hate starts at a very young age! Thanks to the FEAR, SMEAR AND HATE party.

[dnddays]

05:45 PM on 04/17/2009

Kids say the darndest things.

[Syymone]

05:30 PM on 04/17/2009

I have no problem with these people protesting but what I find despicable is the way they are hiding behind"taxes" as the reason they are protesting but the real reason is they are protesting President Obama because of who he is. It's crazy to see the way the parents exploit their children because they don't know anything about taxes,so again it's quite clear as to what they or shall I say who they are protesting....