"The crush of traffic from other Massachusetts shoppers crossing the border turned the 15-mile trip into an hour-long drive."
Gee, I never encounter traffic and the border only 10 minutes away.
:-)
Good morning, Massachusetts readers!!
Sorry to start your day this way....
Also see: Massachusetts Citizens Love Taxes
Globe Didn't Go to the Mall
So the GLOBE only LIED TO ME TWICE, huh?
From here on out -- as it has been for months if not yeras -- I am FORCED to take ALL my Boston Globe and AmeriKan MSM articles as LYING, AGENDA-PUSHING. PILES of you-know-what, readers and world.
Thus it is from the bottom of my lonely hill here in N' Englan'!!!!
"Taxes send shoppers north; Mass. retailers see money heading over the border since rate hit 6.25%" by Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | August 15, 2009
SALEM, N.H. - Some Massachusetts consumers, frustrated by the recent sales tax hike, say they are driving miles out of their way to shopping centers in tax-free New Hampshire for their back-to-school needs.
And it’s not just the usual border crossers. Nancy Hemme, annoyed by the 62-cent tax she recently paid on $10 worth of school supplies at the Staples store in North Reading, decided to do the rest of her school shopping 20 miles away in New Hampshire, where she loaded up on folders, notebooks, and other supplies for her three children at Wal-Mart. She plans to make another trip this month for a television and other items before her son goes off to college and estimates she will spend close to $1,000 in New Hampshire, money she usually would have spent at the local stores in North Reading.
“I just don’t understand in this economy why you’re hurting the retailers and customers even more. It’s worth it to me to drive the extra miles and save money,’’ Hemme said. “I’ve got a big tuition bill coming.’’
That's because "venture capital" has looted pension funds and university endowments.
Some border merchants in New Hampshire say they are seeing a spike in sales since Massachusetts raised its sales tax from 5 percent to 6.25 percent on Aug. 1, while other retailers in the Commonwealth are reporting double-digit drops in business compared with the same period last year. Massachusetts officials have estimated the tax increase would generate about $759 million this year to help fill holes in the state budget.
WRONG AGAIN, guys!!!
Better REVISE DOWNWARD again, you LOOTING SACKS of S***!!!!
Also see:
Pigs 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
Yeah, state is broke all right.
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
Already, the tax hike has become a hot political issue in next year’s gubernatorial race, with several candidates promising to roll back the increase....
But the lying, pro-tax, agenda-pushing Globe doesn't want to talk about that.
The elimination of the annual sales-tax holiday - typically scheduled for this upcoming weekend - and the recent rate increase have Massachusetts merchants worried about a significant drop in sales at a time when they can least afford to lose business.
Don't you LUUUUVVVV how they push the ONE-DAY F***-FEST as a way of SPURRING ECONOMIC ACTIVITY?
You know, if it is GOOD for ONE DAY then it SHOULD BE a PERMANENT THING, you know? Like ALL the PILOT PROGRAMS that PILFER the TAXPAYER!
Oh right, if they REDUCED or ELIMINATED TAXES then THEIR LAVISH, TAXPAYER-FUNDED FAILURES and LIFESTYLES will come crashing to a halt!
“Merchants are saying business is already way off,’’ said Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts. “We’re afraid that a combination of consumers being frugal in tough economic times and consumers being angry over the tax increases is going to push a lot of consumers to New Hampshire.’’
Yeah TELL US the TRUTH WE PREDICTED on a SLOW SATURDAY!!
And no, I'm not going to waste time watching wheels spinning doing an internal search that will tell me it took too long or there is too much traffic. Uh-huh, right. Just like the comments section being wide-open in the settings but nothing and the ROTTEN SPELL CHECK! Yeah, whatever.
The timing couldn’t be worse for retailers who are already bracing for a tough back-to-school season, which is typically the second-largest shopping period behind the holiday season....
Well, it's a LITTLE LATE NOW after you HELPED SELL the S***TER TAX, Globe!
Also see: The Globe's Sales Pitch
Un-be-LIE-va-ble!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the Mall at Rockingham Park’s packed parking lot in Salem, N.H., Massachusetts license plates recently outnumbered those from New Hampshire....
This is for what Globe reporters are using their investigative skills?
The crush of traffic from other Massachusetts shoppers crossing the border turned the 15-mile trip into an hour-long drive. Nonetheless, Jillian Carver, 20, of Haverhill, plans to do all of her back-to-school shopping in New Hampshire this year, even the pens, notebooks, and pencils she typically purchases at stores in Massachusetts.
It's called a BACKFIRE of UNINTENDED(?) CONSEQUENCES, looting legis.
“My mom told me to avoid the sales tax by going to New Hampshire and it just makes sense,’’ Carver said.
Yes, and you should ALWAYS LISTEN to your MOTHER!!!!
Also see: Morning Newspaper Ritual
