That's what it feeels like to follow this "debate" in the OVERWHELMINGLY ONE-SIDED, PRO-TAX Boston Globe! No wonder they are tanking, because this state's citizens -- despite its liberal social view -- don't want to hear about tax hikes. Doing it to yourself, Globe.
"Political momentum builds for state sales tax increase; Patrick does not rule out option" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | April 23, 2009
Governor Deval Patrick expressed deep reservations yesterday, but would not rule out signing onto a proposed sales tax increase....
How you like that one term, guv?
Momentum has been building in the Legislature in recent days to increase the 5 percent sales tax to at least 6 percent, even as business representatives and state residents have been arguing that taxes should not be raised during a recession.
In fact, taxes should not only be not raised, they should be abloished.
Truthfully, I never felt that way until I became aware of where the money goes, folks, and when it's all being stolen by corporate interests, banks, and looting legislators, well...
That's the only place any momentum exists for a tax hike, too!
But top lawmakers, who have remained publicly noncommittal, began discussing a sales tax increase several weeks before the House released a budget last week....
Translation: they have already decided they are going to rise taxes but they are fucking, I mean, fudging us.
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, Senate President Therese Murray, and the chairmen of both the House and Senate ways and means committees began discussions of the topic in late February or early March, according to State House officials who were briefed on the content of their discussions.
The sales tax was brought up among several other options in an effort to avoid the governor's proposal for increasing the gas tax by 19 cents per gallon, the officials said....
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Watch, we will get a package of 'em all rolled into one.
"Sales tax hike to 7 percent 'on the table'; Consensus builds for revenue booster" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | April 24, 2009
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo has begun to seriously consider a plan to increase the sales tax from 5 percent to 7 percent, which would give Massachusetts one of the highest sales taxes in the country, said a State House official who has been briefed on the speaker's deliberations....
Sentiment has built in the House for taking just one conclusive vote on a tax increase instead of subjecting representatives to multiple tax votes, so House leaders are narrowing in on one, broad-based tax hike that could produce enough revenue to avoid the need for more votes later.
Talk about these looters stuffing it up your ass!
Into the harbor with 'em all. That's the only answer anymore.
Increasing the sales tax from 5 percent to 6 percent would raise about $750 million a year, according to some estimates. Raising it another percentage point, to 7 percent could bring in a total of $1.5 billion in new revenue per year, according to the estimates.
Yeah, until we all cut back on spending even more because I haven't been spending a dime save for my untaxed coffee and newspaper. And the papers are on their way out come May 1.
Several other states have a 7 per cent sales tax, including Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Mississippi. California, in response to its own budget crisis, has raised its sales tax a percentage point, to 8.25 percent.
I DON'T CARE about OTHER STATES, I LIVE HERE!!!
Looks like I'm DRIVING TO NEW HAMPSHIRE AGAIN!!!!!
Associated Industries of Massachusetts, which represents businesses across the state, released a statement yesterday urging lawmakers not to raise taxes. It called tax increases "exactly the wrong solution to budget challenges facing the Commonwealth." It said higher taxes would discourage investment and job growth and exacerbate budget shortfalls for state government....
And when the BUSINESS GOUP is AGAINST 'EM, well....
Some business groups have said they are opposed to sales tax increases, saying families and small businesses cannot afford it. But until yesterday's statement from Associated Industries of Massachusetts, organized opposition by business leaders has been notably absent.
Translation; They won't fight it very hard, but they want to make themselves look good for the public.
The House also is considering expanding the sales tax to cover gasoline, instead of adopting Governor Deval Patrick's call for increasing the the gas tax, which is currently 23.5 cents per gallon. Such a move would give lawmakers the political benefit of avoiding votes to raise two different taxes.
What a bunch of FUCKING COWARDS!!!!!
They DESERVE the TAR, FEATHERS and SWING!!!!!!
As for that HIDDEN FART FUCK, well, YOU KNOW the DRILL, Bay-Stater:
1. Pull up to pump
2. Get out of car
3. Drop pants
4. Insert gas pump into ass
5. Pump gas
Eliminating the current sales-tax exemption on gasoline would raise up to $400 million under current gasoline prices....
That's why I've been riding the bike more. Takes longer and makes me limp and impotent, but chances were I wasn't going to be using that part for anything but pee.
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You are welcome to see if you can find any antitax sentiment or any balance at all in that articile, readers.
All about if they raise this one, if they raise that one. No "debate" about whether to raise (or cut, fer cripes sake) at all.
That's my balanced, liberal, cares-about-the-public, agenda-pushi, I mean, newspaper for you.
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
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This mean anything to ya?
