That's why the item is a BRIEF!!!
Also see: Local Lingerings
A Few Ideas For the Boston Globe
"Anti-income tax rally slated for Saturday
I should be thankful they mentioned it at all, huh?
Sponsors of a ballot initiative to repeal the state's income tax will rally in front of Faneuil Hall on Saturday. Carla Howell, head of the Committee for Small Government, said several conservative columnists, talk show hosts, and political candidates will talk about why voters should support the measure, despite warnings from lawmakers and union leaders that the move could mean massive cuts in state services.
Of course, "flushing . . . millions of dollars away supporting a highly profitable industry" when it comes to $300 million in taxpayer dollars for Hollywood is o.k., even as the price of a school lunch rises; paying $13 million for a computer software system that could have cost less than $3 million is all right because the winner was a close friend of the House speaker, even as my poorer-than-dirt district "has been struggling to close a $2 million budget gap."; the lottery shellling out "millions of dollars" for sports tickets for "lottery officials, their family members, and friends" is fine, even as schools are closing; making interest payments to banks to the tune of "a staggering $22 billion" for the Big Pit, as we call it around here, is required, even as bridges are neglected across the state; and again, paying off banks like UBS, who can "demand repayment of an additional $2 million a month beginning in January" while also receiving a "$179 million payment," while the state pension fund loses $1 billion dollars -- which still didn't stop the executive director from carving himself a nice "$64,000 bonus on top of his $322,000 annual salary."
Oh, and did I not mention the $1 BILLION dollar giveaway to the pharmaceutical corporations, even though "it's never been easy to turn a profit in biotech?" Flush that money away, too, taxpayer. Of course, the war looters were next in line for a handout. And should the state be appropriating money for a "multimillion-dollar reconstruction" of golf courses?
All this as the pro-tax looters of state government and media cry bloody murder over the possible repeal of the state income tax -- even as the legislators have already let it be known that they will NOT LISTEN to the WILL of the VOTERS:
"leaders like House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi have suggested they would ignore the result even if voters approved the question"
Tell me again how SERVICES are going to be cut, you LYING LOOTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Committee for Small Government had less than $25,000, according to recent campaign finance disclosures, and was at a cash disadvantage to the competing Coalition for Our Communities in the effort to sway voters on the fate of the 5.3 percent state income tax. The repeal proposal is Question 1 on the Nov. 4 ballot (Boston Globe)."
I expect a RIGGING come November!
Yes, readers, it happens in Massachusetts, too!
Didn't you ever think it strange that a MORMON REPUBLICAN won the governorship in this LIBERAL, PRO-GAY state?
