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Globalist Governor Has Got an Agenda
"Patrick hints at hike in gas tax; Signs budget, says levy on sales may not suffice; Cites need to bolster transportation system" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | June 30, 2009
Governor Deval Patrick signed a budget yesterday that imposes more than $1 billion in additional taxes on Massachusetts residents and visitors, most of it through the first increase in the state sales tax in 33 years, even as he declined to rule out a future boost in the state gas tax.
Patrick continued to make the case yesterday that the tax could be necessary to put the state’s transportation network on sounder financial footing....
The governor made his comments as he signed a $27 billion budget that includes increases in the state’s sales, alcohol, satellite television, meals, and hotel taxes. Even while putting his signature on the budget, Patrick continued to try to distance himself from a first-in-a-generation increase in the state’s sales tax....
Your signature is on the bill, right?
And GET THIS!
Patrick’s budget also included $400,000 to restore funding for a Washington, D.C., office that critics have said is a waste of funding when Massachusetts has a 12-member Congressional delegation. The Legislature had eliminated all funding for the Washington office.
But he's CUTTING SERVICES and RAISING TAXES!!!!!
“While raising taxes on families by a billion dollars and cutting services to the needy, Governor Patrick is trying to waste money on a Washington office when he has a Congressional delegation full of Democrats,’’ said Tarah Donoghue, spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Republican Party....
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