Patrick hints at hike in gas tax
Governor Deval Patrick signed a budget yesterday that imposes more than $1 billion in additional taxes on Massachusetts residents and visitors, most of it through the first increase in the state sales tax in 33 years, even as he declined to rule out a future boost in the state gas tax.Got that? $1 billion in new taxes isn't enough to feed the Leviathan. We need more, more, more. The state's appetite for your tax dollars is a ravenous glutton, one that can never be sated by a mere sales tax alone. We were sold a false bill of goods: Support the sales tax increase and the tolls/gas tax won't go up. Only the ink wasn't even dry on the sales tax increase (New Hampshire, you're welcome BTW) when the talk of increasing the tax on gasoline (you know, what we use to drive to New Hampshire to avoid the sales tax) started.
Patrick, whose earlier proposal for a 19-cent-per-gallon increase in the gasoline tax was largely ignored by the Legislature, continued to make the case yesterday that the tax could be necessary to put the state’s transportation network on sounder financial footing.
The article is accompanied by this picture:
Is it just me, or does that man have a lot of tax-signin' pens on his desk? That is all.
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Tax hikes, new taxes, expanded taxes, new fees.... get ready for a steady drum beat of such news. We can hear it in the wind, like an approaching army of Viking tax collectors, beating their calculators against their shields and shouting their war cry: "Hand it over, Peasant!"
"Vikings." A good analogy. Once you pay the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.
We were sold a false bill of goods: Support the sales tax increase and the tolls/gas tax won't go up.
If you assume that everything a politician says is a lie, you'll be right far more often than you're wrong. This is doubly true for liberal politicians, who have no problem with lying because they have no morals. Sometimes I think that any politician who breaks a campaign promise should be jailed for it.
And Jay, those pens are another method of fundraising. He uses several of them to sign a bill, then they all get sold to suckas who will throw away good money in return for "a pen used by the Governor to sign a law!"
Note that those "tax-signin' pens" are aimed at you, like Gilbert Huph's sharpened pencils in The Incredibles...
Amazing how liberals seem to think that taxing citizens unrelentingly will raise revenues. Don't they ever learn from reality?
*See California for an example of how well taxing folks to death works out for the State.
It's almost as if they do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. Boy, where else do we see that?
Amazing how liberals seem to think that taxing citizens unrelentingly will raise revenues. Don't they ever learn from reality?
No, they don't. The liberal mind does not understand the concept of "feedback." Or "the law of unintended consequences" either. They honestly believe that it is possible to change only one part of a complex system like an economy, without affecting the rest of it. They believe that a sufficiently intelligent human mind can accomplish anything it wants to, if it just tries hard enough. "Sufficiently intelligent," of course, meaning them.
If you find that inconsistent with their belief that most people are fundamentally stupid and incompetent, and require government help to accomplish anything, well, congratulations! You've just discovered one of the several reasons why liberalism in inherently, permanently, irretrievably flawed.
Speaking of death and taxes.
Burial fees are not taxes, state's high court rules - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/06/burial_fees_not.html
…..in other news, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority announced plans for a new highway bridge project to be undertaken in cooperation with the cities and towns of the Commonwealth. The collaborative effort was approved this week in a landmark ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, clearing the way for construction to begin immediately. Justice Judith Cowin, fellow members of the SJC, and Attorney General Martha Coakley, will be wield the golden shovels at groundbreaking ceremonies which to be held next week on the Banks of the River Styx.
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