Post by brassmonkey on Jan 29, 2009 9:35:08 GMT -5
I know that all of you who voted for Deval Patrick feel really good about yourselves, just as you do for voting for the other black man, Barack Obama, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that voting based on race because of your white guilt may not be the wise thing to do... Maybe you're even coming to the realization that voting record, political career and experience actually matter, and not just race.. But I doubt it.. Liberals don't seem to rely on logic and common sense for their decisions.
I'm not even going to get into defending myself from all the dolts who want to bandy the racist label about because the only people looking at race are the brain-dead born-followers who voted for these two affirmative action hires solely because they were black. If a black man is qualified and ready to hold the office for which we're voting, I'd gladly cast my vote, but Deval Patrick clearly wasn't the best choice, and Obama is just a crooked Chicago Community Organizer who is woefully unqualified to be President of the United States.
Deval patrick is planning to raise taxes on sugared sodas, alcohol and candy in order to make up the $120 million he's taking from cities and towns (read-tax money that you've paid that you would be gettng back).. No person of even average intelligence would suggest that raising taxes during a fiscal crisis was a good idea, but Patrick seems to think so.
So, if we break this down and look at it intelligently, Patrick is raising taxes on cigarettes in order to make up a budget shortfall while giving millions to smoking cessation programs in order to get people to stop smoking.. Confused yet? He's raising taxes on candy to make up budget shortfalls, but he's trying to get people to stop eating junk food in order to get their health in check..
I'm confused by all the logic in this government, both state and Federal..
Sugar Daddy Deval Patrick Strikes Again!
by Michael Graham January 29, 2009 @ 08:25
Drop that Snickers--this is an emergency!"
So says Gov. Patrick as he proposes yet another tax increase on working families in Massachusetts. He wants $121 million in new taxes on sodas, candy and beer, and as I point out in the Boston Herald today, this is going to make him very popular:
The good news is that Deval Patrick has been declared “America’s Best Governor” by the state’s taxpayers and small business owners.
The bad news? That state is New Hampshire.
Now, nobody's ever going to confuse Gov. Patrick with Al Einstein, but I thought even the most knee-jerk of liberals had figured out by now that raising taxes during a recession is a bad thing. What's even more bizarre is that Patrick calls his budget the "Emergency Recovery Plan," implying that it has something to do with some sort of, well, "recovery."
Instead, all it does is raise taxes $587 million and keep the size of government growing. And for what?
To keep you from eating Almond Joys and drinking Sam Adams.
Patrick admits in his own budget document that the $121 million he's shaking you down for with the sugar tax has nothing to do with balancing the budget. He wants it all to go to new government spending on what he calls the "Commonwealth Wellness Fund." It pays for stuff like his student weigh-in at public schools program and TV ads telling you that smoking cigarettes is unhealthy.
This is how you respond to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? Massachusetts lost 17,000 private sector jobs in December alone, and Patrick wants $121 million of our money because he thinks we're too fat?
Governor, go stand outside Fidelity as the newly unemployed walk out of the building with their stuff in cardboard boxes and tell them the "emergency" we face is excessive Coca-Cola consumption.
I'm not even going to get into defending myself from all the dolts who want to bandy the racist label about because the only people looking at race are the brain-dead born-followers who voted for these two affirmative action hires solely because they were black. If a black man is qualified and ready to hold the office for which we're voting, I'd gladly cast my vote, but Deval Patrick clearly wasn't the best choice, and Obama is just a crooked Chicago Community Organizer who is woefully unqualified to be President of the United States.
Deval patrick is planning to raise taxes on sugared sodas, alcohol and candy in order to make up the $120 million he's taking from cities and towns (read-tax money that you've paid that you would be gettng back).. No person of even average intelligence would suggest that raising taxes during a fiscal crisis was a good idea, but Patrick seems to think so.
So, if we break this down and look at it intelligently, Patrick is raising taxes on cigarettes in order to make up a budget shortfall while giving millions to smoking cessation programs in order to get people to stop smoking.. Confused yet? He's raising taxes on candy to make up budget shortfalls, but he's trying to get people to stop eating junk food in order to get their health in check..
I'm confused by all the logic in this government, both state and Federal..
Sugar Daddy Deval Patrick Strikes Again!
by Michael Graham January 29, 2009 @ 08:25
Drop that Snickers--this is an emergency!"
So says Gov. Patrick as he proposes yet another tax increase on working families in Massachusetts. He wants $121 million in new taxes on sodas, candy and beer, and as I point out in the Boston Herald today, this is going to make him very popular:
The good news is that Deval Patrick has been declared “America’s Best Governor” by the state’s taxpayers and small business owners.
The bad news? That state is New Hampshire.
Now, nobody's ever going to confuse Gov. Patrick with Al Einstein, but I thought even the most knee-jerk of liberals had figured out by now that raising taxes during a recession is a bad thing. What's even more bizarre is that Patrick calls his budget the "Emergency Recovery Plan," implying that it has something to do with some sort of, well, "recovery."
Instead, all it does is raise taxes $587 million and keep the size of government growing. And for what?
To keep you from eating Almond Joys and drinking Sam Adams.
Patrick admits in his own budget document that the $121 million he's shaking you down for with the sugar tax has nothing to do with balancing the budget. He wants it all to go to new government spending on what he calls the "Commonwealth Wellness Fund." It pays for stuff like his student weigh-in at public schools program and TV ads telling you that smoking cigarettes is unhealthy.
This is how you respond to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? Massachusetts lost 17,000 private sector jobs in December alone, and Patrick wants $121 million of our money because he thinks we're too fat?
Governor, go stand outside Fidelity as the newly unemployed walk out of the building with their stuff in cardboard boxes and tell them the "emergency" we face is excessive Coca-Cola consumption.
