Btw, this is another reason I am sick of the Boston Globe: their one-sided agenda-pushing on this issue has truly opened my eyes.
"State proposes $1.95m in fee increases
A round of golf and a day at the ice rink are about to get pricier under proposed fee increases at facilities run by Department of Conservation and Recreation. Eighteen holes at the Ponkapoag Golf Course in Canton will cost $27, a 23 percent hike. An hour of youth hockey at any of the department's 40 ice rinks will rise 9 percent to $175 from $160. The DCR expects the increases to raise $1.95 million a year.
I do neither, and now I have incentive to stay that way.
"Senate urged to raise taxes, save programs
Activists are urging the Massachusetts Senate to spare their programs from deep cuts or elimination, even if it means hiking taxes. Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary plan to play at a State House rally today to protest cuts to programs for citizens living with disabilities. A group of clergy from across the state also plan to gather on Beacon Hill today to urge lawmakers to raise taxes, not slash health and human service programs."
You wanna find funds for the programs?
See:
Governor Guts State Services
Pigs at the State Trough
A Slow Saturday Special: Statehouse Slush Fund
Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
Have YOU had it with the agenda-pushing lies and omissions of the Boston Globe?
"Mass. Senate may vote today on sales tax increase to 6.25%; Republicans call hike inevitable" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | May 19, 2009
Senate leaders appeared increasingly open yesterday to following their counterparts in the House and approving a hike in the state sales tax to 6.25 percent as a means of raising $900 million to stave off deep budget cuts.
Governor Deval Patrick said he would sign a sales tax increase.
The Senate deliberated as the State House halls filled with activists lobbying on both sides of the tax issue. Dozens of demonstrators, organized by unions and liberal groups, wore stickers saying "Raising Revenues=Reducing Cuts" and urged the Senate to raise taxes beyond a 6.25 percent sales tax. They chanted, "Raise Revenue," and lobbied lawmakers to reverse proposed cuts in services for the poor, elderly, and disabled.
"Let's talk about what is better: Do you want to pay a little more on a particular item and not cut these services, or do we want to face the consequences of having less police, fire, and social service programs?" said Mayor Lisa Wong of Fitchburg, one of the demonstration leaders....
Gee, they have really played you, haven't they, lefties?
Citizens for Limited Taxation distributed memos recalling that seven senators were ousted from office in 1990, after the Legislature approved increases in the income, sales and gas tax, pushed by Governor Michael S. Dukakis. The group warned that senators could face the same fate if they approve new taxes.
Representatives of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts met with aides to Murray and outlined their concerns that a sales tax increase would drive consumers to tax-free New Hampshire and tax-free online vendors.
I already started the car.
"It's clear that raising the sales tax 25 percent is going to cost us a lot of small business jobs," as many as 12,600, according to the Beacon Hill Institute, said Jon B. Hurst, president of the Retailers Association. "They really need to think about Main Street in each of their districts before they take this vote."
Ha! We don't pour money into their pockets, so they don't hear us!
The Republican proposal recommends 13 tax alternatives, such as repealing the so-called Pacheco Law, which would make it easier to privatize state services, selling surplus state land to raise $25 million, and repealing a $110 million tax credit for the film industry.
Oh, it is MORE THAN THAT!!
Try BILLION a YEAR!
Did you SEE MY LINKS, readers?
Notice how the Globe also KEEPS THAT QUIET while it BASHES COPS and FIREFIGHTERS' UNIONS? Ever notice that? I have!
Republicans also want to drop the sales tax on cars to 3 percent for 6 months to help struggling auto dealers, dozens of which have been slated for closure in Massachusetts.
Lobbying is expected to intensify today as the Senate begins formal debate. Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey of the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, are scheduled to lend their star power (and thier singing voices) to a demonstration on the State House steps against cuts in services for the elderly and disabled.
Well, I TOLD YOU where the $$$$ is!!!!
I'm just wondering WHY the PRO-TAX over-the-hillers are FEATURED TWICE by the Globe!
Naw, no agenda-pushing going on here!!!
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And then this is this little op-ed beaut from Sunday:
Increasing the income tax by one percent.... raising the income tax is the best solution to our fiscal crisis."
I've lived here long enough to know how this state works!
