Post by homebase on Feb 3, 2010 11:50:54 GMT -5
Gov. Patrick’s $28B budget slashes services, taxes sweets
One of the comments to this article puts this Billion Dollar Budget in perspective.
This is how much it costs to regulate every aspect of our lives so they can tax us on it and build more government programs to keep their subjects (us) in the treadmill to support give away, bail out, health care programs and pay the feds back with interest on grants for their "green jobs" scam.
However, sweets is not the only taxes to be leveled on the subject population.
From this article there is a more articulate list: On the up and up: Governor Patrick proposes tax, fee increases
What is in your wallet? How you spend your money is increasingly scrutinized, demonized, moralized (especially by our "Health Authorities" then taxed... exerting more and more control over personal and legal life choices that governing bodies decide you can do without.
All these tax increases are not going to raise the money they say it would. They are and have been regulating taxing business out of the country, taking on loans to create government green jobs that will only provide service type jobs at low wages to the working class after they hire their contract union buddies to demolish and build green friendly structures.
But for now they are going after the independent private moms and pops business that have done well. That money is the governments and these people these business owners will have a job once government gives it to them.
One of the comments to this article puts this Billion Dollar Budget in perspective.
I am not a mathematician. I rounded off the numbers to 7 million in population and a 30 billion dollar budget. My calculations are that it cost the state----that is the STATE folks--that is irrespective of federal and local taxes and expenditures. Are you sitting down? That $42,857.00 that the state needs to function for every man, woman, and child in this state.
This is how much it costs to regulate every aspect of our lives so they can tax us on it and build more government programs to keep their subjects (us) in the treadmill to support give away, bail out, health care programs and pay the feds back with interest on grants for their "green jobs" scam.
However, sweets is not the only taxes to be leveled on the subject population.
From this article there is a more articulate list: On the up and up: Governor Patrick proposes tax, fee increases
By Dan Ring
February 01, 2010, 9:19AM
Patrick BOSTON - Cigar smokers, car owners, people with a sweet tooth and people in poverty could all soon be paying higher taxes or fees if Gov. Deval L. Patrick gets his way.
Seeking money for such services as health care, police training and recycling, the governor is proposing to raise $100 million from new taxes and fees in the $28.2 billion state budget proposal he filed for the fiscal year that starts July 1. ...
Patrick is asking for dramatic increases in state taxes on cigars, chewing and pipe tobacco and pouches of tobacco, hoping to generate $15 million a year for health care. A package of cigars that now costs $3.90 would jump to $6.30, a bag of pipe tobacco that now goes for $5.20 would cost $8.80, and a can of chewing tobacco would rise from $13.30 to $14.70, for example, said a spokesman for the state Department of Revenue. ...
Fawn A. Phelps, director of policy for Health Care for All, said Patrick is seeking to end exemptions from the sales tax for candy and soda, not increase taxes. She said Patrick wants to extend a 2008 tax increase on cigarettes to cigars and other types of tobacco that were excluded from that tax jump. ...
Patrick is asking for the tax and fee increases to help close a nearly $3 billion shortfall in the fiscal 2011 budget.
In another proposal he is reviving, Patrick wants to create a surcharge of $1.60 to $2 per year on the state's 3.1 million private auto insurance policies, raising $6.3 million annually for state and municipal police training. ...
The governor is also seeking to expand the state's 5-cent bottle deposit law to bottles of water, flavored water, juices, coffee-based drinks, ice teas and sports drinks, generating $20 million a year, including $5 million for recycling and solid waste management. Advocates for years have been trying unsuccessfully to expand the bottle law. Former Republican Gov. W. Mitt Romney sought a similar expansion in 2003, saying it would help clean up roadsides.
Patrick is even asking some of the state's poorest residents to pay more for services. He wants legislators to approve a 50 percent increase on co-pays for generic prescription drugs for Medicaid recipients, exempting certain chronic conditions. Co-pays would go from $2 to $3 and would raise $8 million.
February 01, 2010, 9:19AM
Patrick BOSTON - Cigar smokers, car owners, people with a sweet tooth and people in poverty could all soon be paying higher taxes or fees if Gov. Deval L. Patrick gets his way.
Seeking money for such services as health care, police training and recycling, the governor is proposing to raise $100 million from new taxes and fees in the $28.2 billion state budget proposal he filed for the fiscal year that starts July 1. ...
Patrick is asking for dramatic increases in state taxes on cigars, chewing and pipe tobacco and pouches of tobacco, hoping to generate $15 million a year for health care. A package of cigars that now costs $3.90 would jump to $6.30, a bag of pipe tobacco that now goes for $5.20 would cost $8.80, and a can of chewing tobacco would rise from $13.30 to $14.70, for example, said a spokesman for the state Department of Revenue. ...
Fawn A. Phelps, director of policy for Health Care for All, said Patrick is seeking to end exemptions from the sales tax for candy and soda, not increase taxes. She said Patrick wants to extend a 2008 tax increase on cigarettes to cigars and other types of tobacco that were excluded from that tax jump. ...
Patrick is asking for the tax and fee increases to help close a nearly $3 billion shortfall in the fiscal 2011 budget.
In another proposal he is reviving, Patrick wants to create a surcharge of $1.60 to $2 per year on the state's 3.1 million private auto insurance policies, raising $6.3 million annually for state and municipal police training. ...
The governor is also seeking to expand the state's 5-cent bottle deposit law to bottles of water, flavored water, juices, coffee-based drinks, ice teas and sports drinks, generating $20 million a year, including $5 million for recycling and solid waste management. Advocates for years have been trying unsuccessfully to expand the bottle law. Former Republican Gov. W. Mitt Romney sought a similar expansion in 2003, saying it would help clean up roadsides.
Patrick is even asking some of the state's poorest residents to pay more for services. He wants legislators to approve a 50 percent increase on co-pays for generic prescription drugs for Medicaid recipients, exempting certain chronic conditions. Co-pays would go from $2 to $3 and would raise $8 million.
What is in your wallet? How you spend your money is increasingly scrutinized, demonized, moralized (especially by our "Health Authorities" then taxed... exerting more and more control over personal and legal life choices that governing bodies decide you can do without.
All these tax increases are not going to raise the money they say it would. They are and have been regulating taxing business out of the country, taking on loans to create government green jobs that will only provide service type jobs at low wages to the working class after they hire their contract union buddies to demolish and build green friendly structures.
But for now they are going after the independent private moms and pops business that have done well. That money is the governments and these people these business owners will have a job once government gives it to them.