Post by brassmonkey on Mar 2, 2010 10:22:29 GMT -5
This is a story from Michael Graham's blog..
The headline from ABC News said it all:
“What Taxes Will States Turn to Next? From ‘Sin Taxes’ to Complete Tax Overhauls, Cash-Strapped States Are Desperate for More Revenue.’ ”
“Desperate” is right. This ABC story reported increased state cigarette taxes, sales taxes and liquor taxes - and that was just Massachusetts.
Just kidding, just kidding. Massachusetts didn’t raise all those taxes just last year. No, it took our governor three years to increase them all. And now what is Deval Patrick doing? Trying to raise your sugar taxes.
And that’s when he’s not sneaking in the brand-new $5 “Talk to the RMV” tax
Meanwhile, Gov. Patrick’s proposed a $1.2 billion spending increase in his new budget. Part of that is due to the price of ObamaCare 1.0, which will cost you $900 million next year alone. And yet Patrick and Co. are pushing the idea of taking this expensive mess national.
It’s the spending, stupid, and until politicians like Deval figure that out, they’re always going to be desperate to tax us more.
UPDATE! Here’s a comparison that matters: Under Patrick, spending (a.k.a. “the government’s paycheck”) is going up 4.5 percent this year. But what happened to YOUR paycheck?
Commerce economists said last year's unprecedented drop of $256 billion in private wages — the mainstay of consumers in ordinary times — was particularly dramatic, and was more than 40 times larger than the drop in wages during the entire 2001 recession.
Your wages plummet, but government gives itself a big raise. That’s the Chicago (Deval and Barack, right?) Way.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting to my breaking point hearing how the government just isn't raising enough money when Obummer has made it so that literally 50% of the population pays no federal taxes, and state residents are paying new and higher taxes every time we turn around.. They just raised our sales tax to 6.25% illegally, and they've also started taxing clothing not deemed necessary, yet still they aren't getting enough out of us.. It's time for a revolution!!
Here is the Boston Herald story...
The headline from ABC News said it all:
“What Taxes Will States Turn to Next? From ‘Sin Taxes’ to Complete Tax Overhauls, Cash-Strapped States Are Desperate for More Revenue.’ ”
“Desperate” is right. This ABC story reported increased state cigarette taxes, sales taxes and liquor taxes - and that was just Massachusetts.
Just kidding, just kidding. Massachusetts didn’t raise all those taxes just last year. No, it took our governor three years to increase them all. And now what is Deval Patrick doing? Trying to raise your sugar taxes.
And that’s when he’s not sneaking in the brand-new $5 “Talk to the RMV” tax
Meanwhile, Gov. Patrick’s proposed a $1.2 billion spending increase in his new budget. Part of that is due to the price of ObamaCare 1.0, which will cost you $900 million next year alone. And yet Patrick and Co. are pushing the idea of taking this expensive mess national.
It’s the spending, stupid, and until politicians like Deval figure that out, they’re always going to be desperate to tax us more.
UPDATE! Here’s a comparison that matters: Under Patrick, spending (a.k.a. “the government’s paycheck”) is going up 4.5 percent this year. But what happened to YOUR paycheck?
Commerce economists said last year's unprecedented drop of $256 billion in private wages — the mainstay of consumers in ordinary times — was particularly dramatic, and was more than 40 times larger than the drop in wages during the entire 2001 recession.
Your wages plummet, but government gives itself a big raise. That’s the Chicago (Deval and Barack, right?) Way.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting to my breaking point hearing how the government just isn't raising enough money when Obummer has made it so that literally 50% of the population pays no federal taxes, and state residents are paying new and higher taxes every time we turn around.. They just raised our sales tax to 6.25% illegally, and they've also started taxing clothing not deemed necessary, yet still they aren't getting enough out of us.. It's time for a revolution!!
Here is the Boston Herald story...
