PLATTSBURGH — More than 100 people attended a Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party rally at Trinity Park Wednesday afternoon to protest government spending.

The event was organized by Holly De Tulleo of Mooers Forks, who kicked the event off at Plattsburgh City Hall.

“Give yourself a hand. This is your rally, your effort and your voices,” she said before leading a march up Cornelia Street and along Margaret Street to the park.

The crowd loudly chanted “I’ve come to say I don’t want to pay,” with several cars honking horns in support.

De Tulleo then led the rally from a platform in the park.

“We are here. This is the day,” she said to cheers from the crowd. “We will be seen and heard.”

It was one of more than 2,000 such rallies across the United States on the last day to file income-tax forms.

“We want our country back. It’s like we don’t even recognize her any more,” De Tulleo said.

After she led the crowd in a recital of the Pledge of Allegiance, Ron and Courtland Wood were joined by the crowd in singing the “Star-Spangled Banner,” accompanied by Carl Kokes on violin. They later led songs such as “America the Beautiful,” “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and “Proud to be an American.”

De Tulleo asked participants to come up on stage and share their thoughts.

Morrisonville resident Gary Loffler quoted Margaret Thatcher:

“Socialism works just fine until you run out of other people’s money,” he said.

Loffler runs a small insulation business, Cellu-Spray. He said what’s happening with taxes is putting small businesses out of business.

“Government is like a cancer. It’s growing and growing,” he said before the event. “Things can’t keep growing forever.”

The large turnout shows people feel very strongly government is destroying the voices of our country piece by piece, Loffler said.