Related: The Boston Globe Hates Massachusetts' Taxpayers
The Pro-Tax Boston Globe is Worried
"It's a question of mistrust" by Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist | October 10, 2008
Mimi Ramos runs political campaigns for a living. But the battle to defeat Question 1 - the ballot question that would wipe out the state's income tax - poses a distinct challenge.
"A lot of people don't even know this is on the ballot," she said yesterday. "Going door-to-door is definitely better than people reading about it in the newspaper or seeing it on television. No offense."
Yeah, thanks to the pro-tax, agenda-pushing Boston Globe and their ilk!
None taken. Ramos, the statewide organizer for Massachusetts ACORN, is one of the ground troops trying to convince people of color that they have a special stake in paying income taxes.
Translation: Looks like the vote will be RIGGED by BALLOT STUFFING!
She is part of a quiet but determined effort to convince low-income and minority voters that the fallout from eliminating the tax could be disastrous. An estimated 40 percent of the state's budget could face the ax if the ballot question were to pass, and its prospects are uncertain.
You haven't been very quiet in your opposition, Globe, while short-shrifting the ?
WTF? Why you gotta SHOVEL SHIT everyday?
The stakes are high, at least for those who like the idea of government. Should the measure pass, state and local government would take an almost unimaginable hit. The effects would likely reverberate for years.
Yeah, sure (see links below, readers).
Question 1 is the latest brainchild of antitax advocates who have tried for years to convert widespread cynicism about government into loony public policy. --more--"
And THAT is when I stopped reading this agenda-pushing piece of shit's article!!!!
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 shelling 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?
Nor is it RECKLESS to BORROW the STATE INTO OBLIVION so they can PAY INTEREST to BANKS while SITTING ON $2 BILLION DOLLARS!
Need one final insult, Mass. taxpayers?
See: Massachusetts Gives More Money to Hollywood
Yup, keep the income tax because we need to KEEP SERVICES!!
Are you SICK and TIRED of the LYING AGENDA-PUSHING like me, Mass. residents?
