Tax Day Tea Parties

Santa Ana police on horseback watch as protesters leave an anti-tax rally at the Santa Ana Civic Center.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Alex Gudino of Cerritos lets his dog parade his message around the anti-tax rally at the Santa Ana Civic Center.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Cathy Godoy of Santa Ana wears tags listing various taxes at the Santa Ana Civic Center rally.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Annette Beason, a registered nurse from Tustin, rims her sun hat with tea bags to represent the spirit of the anti-tax tea party in Santa Ana.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

A crowd estimated at more than 1,000 people gathers at the Santa Ana Civic Center for the anti-tax rally.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Protesters gather at Glendale City Hall in one of many Tax Day tea parties..  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Sabrina Bertino-Clarke, 8, adds her voice to those of about 250 protesters at Glendale City Hall.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Wearing her tea bag earrings and toting a sign, Rita Jett, 55, of Santa Clarita joins the Glendale protest.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Matthew Arnall, 10, holds the flag during the Glendale anti-tax rally.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

John Arnall, 6, center, adds his lung power to the Glendale protest.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Don Dwyer hurls a box symbolically labeled “tea” into the water in Annapolis, Md., during an anti-tax protest.  (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun)

Demonstrators participate in a tea party protest at the Federal Building Plaza in Chicago.  (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Donna Millwood and Sue Easterly, not seen, hold up their “britches” sign as tax protesters gather outside the federal building in Anchorage.  (Al Grillo / Associated Press)

Demonstrators against taxes and President Obama stage a protest in Staten Island, N.Y.  (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)

Tamara Schirrmacher, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, holds chains that she says represent the national debt during an anti-tax rally in Pleasanton, Calif.  (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)

A man holds up a fistful of money to show support for demonstrators as he drives by an anti-tax rally in Nashville.  (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)