Posted on 02/20/2009 5:47:32 PM PST by arkadyka
A throwback to the 1970s, our own original hope-n-change governor has proposed his most daring tax hike yet. A 19 cent gas tax increase to pay for the struggling Mass. Transit/MBTA department which will be on top of the proposed candy, soda, alcohol tax increases. SUVs will also be subjected to higher fees and a crackdown to ensure that MA residents avoid breaking the law and buying goods in tax free New Hampshire.
How is that liberals still have not learned, that taxing people when they are hurting from a recession, depleted 401Ks, plummeting house values and rising unemployment is the surest way to exacerbate the situation? They did it under FDR, they did it in the 1970s, they did it in Japan and now they are doing it again? Even Bill Clinton had the bloody sense to implement the highest middle class tax increase during a recovery! (granted the democrats got the boot shortly after, but the difference is worth mentioning).
So not only has Deval and his cronies scared MA residents stiff into not voting for Question 1 (elimination of the state income tax) they are now levying taxes left and right. If this gas tax goes through and I am sure it will, our state will have the highest gas taxes in the nation. Of course to the original hope-n-change, this amounts to less than a cup of coffee per week. What a self righteous prick, easy for him to say when he is pimping around on a brand new Cadillac all expenses paid. Worse yet, the fees on the SUVs and other big cars is precisely what the American car companies do NOT need right now, apparently it is the only vehicle they can actually sell. I am personally stunned at this level of audacity and we are well on our way to Taxachusetts, assuming we have enough money to get there.
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Anyone care to smuggle cigs and stuff into MA? At this rate, smuggling (to avoid taxes) will become a popular past time. Just as Canadians when it comes to tobacco products :)
On top of all that, “Devil” Patrick wants to put toll booths on the Massachusetts side of the MA/NH border, and the Dem governor of NH wants to put toll booths on the NH side of the border. They’ve got us coming and going!
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