The "Cincinnati Tea Party" is organizing again their march to fountain square and then city hall.
Not a single one of their organizers actually lives within the City of Cincinnati.
Many of their organizers live within what are called "township governments", a skeleton-government that is stripped down to the bare essentials in order to reduce operating costs to the absolute minimum. Others live in the upscale residential neighborhoods around the I-275 loop (such as Kings and Fairfield). This says a lot, to me, about the movement and who makes it up. It is ironic that they choose to stage their protest on big-city public projects (fountain square and city hall). Perhaps they just can't find a similar venue in their own little Randian municipalities.
Not unexpectedly, many of these township governments have a high incidence of cronyism, nepotism, and corruption within their ranks. Since the beginning of the year, three of the townships around Greater Cincinnati have had corruption investigations turning up evidence (and sometimes convictions) of fraud and abuse.
The township government was originally designed so as to be a limited central authority in the rural areas of the US, where population density would be low. Since then, they've been latched onto by the libertarian and conservative movements as a "model" for other governments to follow. Many of these adherents have migrated to those areas for the goal of merely escaping "excessive taxation", as they put it.
Discuss amonst yourselves.