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Associated Press - April 15, 2009 11:44 PM ET
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Thousands of protesters gathered on the Statehouse lawn and across Indiana today to make it known they were fed up with overspending by the government.
State police estimated the Statehouse protest drew 2,000 to 2,500 people. It was part of a series of tax day protests across the country.
Protesters complained that government spending puts the nation's children in debt before they're even old enough to pay taxes.
In Lafayette, several hundred people cheered as a large box of tea bags was dumped from a bridge into the Wabash River in a symbolic recreation of the Boston Tea Party.
Organizer Donn Brown told the crowd he was ready to pollute, a reference to complaints from environmentalists that the tea-bag protest would trash the river.
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