Related: The Globe's Sales Pitch
Just another in the latest crop of Globe insults.
"For some shoppers, hike not so taxing" by Vivian Nereim, Globe Correspondent | August 6, 2009
NATICK - Massachusetts consumers have for weeks bemoaned the possibility of an increase in the state sales tax.
But this week, the first under the higher tax, it was hardly keeping them away from the malls, where blithe shoppers swung bags fat with purchases....
Pffft! So says the lying, agenda-pushing, s***ter!
“I didn’t think of it!’’ José Font said. “When you’re buying stuff, you’re so used to it.’’
So it has gone for many consumers across the state during the first week under the new sales tax rate of 6.25 percent, up from 5 percent.
Well, NOT ME!!! Pffft!
Political opponents of Governor Deval Patrick and Democratic lawmakers, who implemented the increase, were quick to decry the increase, warning of grave economic damage to the state and an exodus of shoppers to New Hampshire, which has no sales tax.
But interviews with dozens of Massachusetts residents on the Boston Common and at shopping centers in Natick, Braintree, and Dorchester this week suggest that many consumers - even those who vehemently oppose tax increases in the abstract - aren’t giving the change much thought at the cash register.
That's the way most shit-eating Bay-Staters do everything!
And the Globe will filter and censor the responses, you can bet on that!
Few said it would affect their spending habits. Some said it was too small to matter.
Then send the change my way!
UNREAL!!!!
Related: Tax Collections Tell the Truth
So far, it seems the rhetoric about the higher sales tax does not always conform with reality.
That's the NEWSPAPER saying that, huh?
The CHUTZPAH is SOMETHING ELSE, isn't it?
Beaming as she walked out of Belden Jewelers in Braintree with a new diamond ring, Frances Platten of Stoughton said she was not worried about the additional tax she had paid. She said she fell in love with the ring - “It’s so different, like a buckle,’’ she said - when she saw it gleaming in the display case. “I did a good buy,’’ she said. “I never pay full price for anything.’’
Many people said they were not paying attention to the tax - which does not apply to food not bought in restaurants and to individual items of clothing under $175 - because they had already cut back deeply.
I've had it with the insulting agenda-pushing, how about you?
Others said they were paying more attention to markdowns than sales tax. Sandra Gaither of Roxbury said she believes most people are hunting for sales anyway, which she said diminish the pain of higher taxes. “If the price is marked down to a reasonable price they can afford, the tax is incidental,’’ she said.
Gaither and a handful of other people said they believed the tax increase could lead to good things. “I think we need more taxes, so we have more services,’’ said Moshe Sagi of Needham.
What PROPAGANDA!!!
And WHAT a GOD-DAMN FOOL!!!
Governor Guts State ServicesPigs at the State Trough
A Slow Saturday Special: Statehouse Slush Fund
Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
Massachusetts Residents Taken For a Ride
Slow Saturday Special: Day at the Movies
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
Even some retailers said they did not expect to see business change that much.
See: Slow Saturday Special: Anti-Tax Op
“I don’t think it’s going to affect us that much, personally,’’ said Michael Wasserman, who manages a Lowe’s in Haverhill, near New Hampshire. He said that if customers had been willing to pay the former 5 percent gap between the two states’ sales taxes, this increase, which took effect Saturday, would not make a difference.
Then why all the bitchin' before it passsed?
Globe, you are such a bunch of f***ing lia..... oh, never mind!!!
“The extra 1 percent?’’ he said. “I don’t think it’s going to drive a new group of people across for the penny.’’
Penny on the dollar -- and ACTUALLY MORE THAN that!
Retailers who are worried include those who sell liquor; previously, there was no tax on alcohol.
Armen Derderian, who owns an A&B Package Store in Methuen, said he had already seen customers make the short drive across the border to New Hampshire. “I’ve had some people come in, and they go, ‘Ah, tax is tax,’ ’’ he said. “Other people go in and go, ‘I’m headed north.’ ’’
But the Globe didn't so it didn't happen, right?
Just rhetoric that doesn't match the reality!
Watch, next quarter they will lie to us and tells us collections increased!
Ultimately, though, said Michael Robertson, a construction worker from Melrose, people will continue to make the same hard choices they have made since the recession began.
“The sales tax doesn’t bother me’’ he said, loading items from Home Depot in Dorchester into his pickup truck. “I think there’s a lot of bigger issues right now.’’
Yeah, like ENDING the DAMN WARS, right?
Jess Granger of Salem considered the increase while he lounged on a couch at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, taking a break from his job at Nordstrom. “It won’t affect my spending,’’ he said. The corridors around him continued to bustle while his break ticked away.
--more--"And I'm going to bustle my way right out of this shitpile piece from the Boston Globe!
Bye!
