Another reason they are going down the drain. People are sick of the agenda-pushing vampires. That's why I'm the only one reading them around here. When I do go to the corner store and purchase a paper from Apu there is always a big stack of fresh ones that haven't even been touched.
"House OK's hike in Mass. sales tax; Tally enough to override Patrick's threatened veto" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | April 28, 2009
Senate leaders, who also would need to sign onto the House's tax increase, were conspicuously silent on the subject.
The chants of protax advocates thundered through the State House corridors, even as lobbyists, hoping to preserve funding for various causes, stood in the hallways hoping to catch a few minutes with lawmakers. At one point Patrick tried to avoid reporters and slip into his office by an alternate, fourth-floor office, only to be tracked down....
Yeah, those intrepid and dogged MSM reporters tracked him down. Pffft!
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"Lobbyists voice opinions at House during tax debate" by Andrea Estes, Globe Staff | April 28, 2009
Lobbyists lingered in the State House yesterday, stopping lawmakers in the halls and urging them to reject tax hikes. On the other side of the issue, advocates for the homeless and mentally ill marched with union officials, filling the corridors with chants of "Raise Revenues! Stop the cuts!"
Okay, you can start here:
Pigs at the State Trough
A Slow Saturday Special: Statehouse Slush Fund
Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
James Klocke, executive vice president of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, said his group's members were lobbying against a sales tax hike, instead favoring an increase in the gas tax of 25 cents a gallon.
F*** YOU, a**hole!
Yup, even the "ANTI-TAX" BUSINESSES are FOR RAISING TAXES!!!
The advocates for social services spending - also well organized, but louder - said they did not particularly care what taxes were increased to save programs.
Yeah, THAT TYPE of PROTESTER LOUDNESS is OKAY with the AGENDA-PUSHING GLOBE!! Never mind what frauds they are when it comes to unionized labor; think of how ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS are treated in their shit sheets -- if they are covered at all. Yeah, you get another F*** YOU out of it, MSM!
The registered lobbyists spoke in hushed tones in the hallways outside the House and Senate chambers, texting on their cellphones during lulls in the conversation. Many refused to say whom they represented.
Judy Meredith, a longtime human services lobbyist, also took a fresh approach with onemassachusetts.org, a website that urges residents and advocates to contact their legislators and organize their friends through Facebook and Twitter. "We're doing a virtual rally," Meredith said.
Pffft!
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Now I believe in those data-mining spy services even less!!!
"Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform
Who knew that swine flu could also infect Twitter? Yet this is what appears to have happened in the last 24 hours, with thousands of Twitter users turning to their favorite service to query each other about this nascent and potentially lethal threat as well as to share news and latest developments from Mexico, Texas, Kansas and New York (you can check most recent Twitter updates on the subject by searching for “swine flu” and “#swineflu”). And despite all the recent Twitter-enthusiasm about this platform's unique power to alert millions of people in decentralized and previously unavailable ways, there are quite a few reasons to be concerned about Twitter's role in facilitating an unnecessary global panic about swine flu."
Related: MSM Touts Twitter
Put Twitter Out of Work
Reason #368 to Not Trust Twitter
And I'm not the only one not liking Twitter, folks:
"Twitter. As I understand it this is some kind of a text messaging forum for people with bubblegum where their brains used to be."
That's been my experience, yeah!
Continuing with the tax "debate."
Can they MAKE IT ANY CLEARER when they HEADLINE the OPS PAGE with THIS?
But that is not enough, given the public's commitment to widely available healthcare, quality pre-K-12 education, and a public higher-education system accessible to all."
About holier-than-though's public ed spending:
"The state's $96 million financial aid budget.... ranks among the country's least generous"
Oh, and while you ponder why you can't afford school, keep this in mind.
"I'm double dipping and I'm happy to be doing it," said Ralph Olsen, 62, who is finishing up his second year as principal of Durfee High School in Fall River and plans to return next school year. Olsen, who retired as Framingham High School principal in 2004, earns $87,311 a year in pension income and makes $140,000 a year in his new position....
Eugene Thayer... earns $192,000 a year as superintendent of Framingham schools.... His pension is worth an additional $85,000 a year"
This while teachers are being laid off and budgets cut.
Never mind the shitty, overchrged 'health" care. And
Even the ANTI-TAX COUNTER-POINTER is FOR TAX INCREASES! Pfffffttt!
What is at issue here is the credibility of government....
They have LOST THAT and it ain't never coming back. Too many lies....
And guess where all that loot is going?
Does the term black hole mean anything to you, taxpayers?
"Plenty of problems still down the road; House plan won't solve long-term transit-fund crisis" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff | April 28, 2009
Related: What Your T Ticket Pays For
Even if the state stretches the new sales tax money enough the bigger problems would remain unsolved. The state would still have to borrow $135 million every year to pay for its basic highway maintenance costs....
And WHO BENEFITS? BANKS AGAIN!!!
Related: "In the 1990s, the T and other transit agencies were encouraged by federal officials to sell their train equipment to banks and then lease it back. The arrangement brought the T $53 million in upfront payments. In return, the private banks realized a tax benefit"
NOT a GOOD IDEA at all!!! Thanks, Bill Clinton!
Related: Banks Bend U.S. Cities Over
Massachusetts' Fate Rests in Banks' Hands
MBTA managers know that problem well. In 2000, the T began taking in one cent of every taxable dollar in the state, a system designed to give the authority enough money to pay its own bills forever and cover its existing debt, then more than $2 billion. But even the most conservative sales tax projections, of 3 percent growth per year, were too optimistic. In the previous decade, revenue from the sales tax had grown 6.5 percent a year. But after 2000, it grew an average of 1 percent a year, and the T went further into debt as it paid for expansion projects required to mitigate the Big Dig's environmental impacts.
That fucking thing! We are going to be paying for that looting forever!
If the T plugs next year's operating deficit, it will still need to borrow about $200 million a year....
In 2007, a bipartisan commission that studied the transportation problem recommended a higher gas tax, as well as moderate toll increases and MBTA fare hikes, to raise a total of nearly $20 billion in unmet needs over the next two decades. The chairman of that commission, Stephen J. Silveira, said yesterday that the members intentionally chose the gas tax and other user fees so the public would see a direct connection between transportation costs and services, rather than simply another tax. Using more sales tax dollars for transportation would end that approach.
"OK, I go and I buy my new flat-screen TV, and I pay an extra $25," he said. "And, what, $6 of that is for transportation?"
I know just where you can get one!!!
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Readers, the last thing I'm looking to do is buy a flat-screen TV (what is with the fucking endless business promotions in the "newspaper," huh?)
And I if I do, I'M CROSSING STATE LINES!!!!
Some shoppers said they would seriously consider heading to New Hampshire, which has no sales tax, to buy more expensive items. Standing outside while his girlfriend shopped for clothes, 25-year-old Joe Caps of Hyannis said, "The best thing is to just go drive up to New Hampshire and do what you got to do."
YUP!! And I WILL BE!!!
FUCK TAXACHUSHITTS and the BOSTON GLOBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alicia Velasquez, who was standing outside the H&M store with a group of friends, agreed. She said she would not be surprised if more consumers shopped in New Hampshire as a result.
SEE YA UP THERE, Bay-Stater!!!!!!!!!!!
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Btw, you will be getting the WHOLE RANGE of INCREASES, Bay-Stater!!!
I've lived here my whole life and I KNOW!!!!
