Bay State wants everyone to count ( Mass losing people, money, congressional seats, power ... )

Boston Globe ^ | July 4, 2006 | Andrea Estes

[george76]

Boston, as well as the state, has been losing population in the past few years.

If those numbers are confirmed by the 2010 federal census, Massachusetts could lose up to two congressional seats, as well as federal money for highway, education, and development programs that are tied to population.

Responding to concerns raised by the state's congressional delegation, local mayors, and Secretary of State William F. Galvin, lawmakers included $100,000 in the $25.7 billion state budget last week to pay a University of Massachusetts think tank to start researching the numbers to make sure that as many residents as possible are counted.

"Everyone is wringing their hands about how we're losing population," said Galvin, whose office will work with researchers at the Donahue Institute at UMass to try to track hard-to-locate populations.

``We want to do something about it, make sure every person who should be counted is counted. We're going to look in every nook and cranny in Massachusetts to count everybody who is here."

Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday that the funding will allow the state to come up with its own population numbers and not have to rely on federal figures.

[GSlob]

"A 50% tax cut would be a whole lot more effective. ;)"
Income and state tax load in MA is not too onerous - about 5% each; also many items are excluded from sales taxation [food, drugs, clothing]. It is the general cost of living there, starting with housing.

[george76]

[Gay State Conservative]

Connecticut is losing also. The Carolinas are the place of choice.

I'm not surprised.I'll be leaving in the not-too-distant future for VA or NC.I won't go any farther south because I need four seasons.

[Bogey78O]

Massachusetts is almost a textbook virus infected cell.

A virus infects the host cell. It hijacks the cell and proceeds to alter the cell and turn it into a virus factory. In the process it kills the cell and all the virii break free and flood to the neighboring cells where they infect them and repeat the process all over again.

Just replace "virus" with "leftist thought".

[Ax]

I left MA in Sep 2001 after I lost my wife. I never really liked living in MA because I couldn't stand being around Catholics who continued to send those two abortion-mongers, Kennedy and Kerry, back to the Senate. And my congresscritter, Bill Delahunt, was the guy who was treating with Chavez for cheap oil for the poor in Southie after I left. There are some good people in MA, but they are outnumbered by the bed-wetting limp wrists.

[george76]

 

[cloud8]

1. Housing.
2. Taxes.
3. Schools (esp. Suffolk county).
3a. Enforced policy of multiculturalism.
4. Commute.

There are too damn many people here anyway. I will still be around to hold the fort, plow over the last half of the 20th century, and plant orchards.

[george76]

[Uncle Hal]

I remember in the 1990 census Ted Kennedy wanted to count only US citizens in the census knowing that counting everyone would hurt Mass.

[LdSentinal]

If those numbers are confirmed by the 2010 federal census, Massachusetts could lose up to two congressional seats

Please, please.

[Gay State Conservative]

And my congresscritter, Bill Delahunt, was the guy who was treating with Chavez for cheap oil for the poor in Southie after I left. There are some good people in MA, but they are outnumbered by the bed-wetting limp wrists.

The truly funny (and disgusting) thing about the political landscape of this state is that Barney Frank may well be the most reasonable and respectable member of our Congressional delegation.

[george76]

Needs repeating

"...outnumbered by the bed-wetting limp wrists."

[Ax]

Every time I see Bawney on TV, I can't help but like the guy. What really turns me off is his Hillary-rumpswab of a sister, Anne Lewis. She makes me bahf. My nephew met Bawney at a Synagogue in DC and said that he's really a smart, funny guy.

[gidget7]

I disagree that they are clueless, I think they know full well why everyone is leaving. They have also become fluent in liberal speak, so they can feign ignorance on any number of subjects very well. But come on, NO ONE is that stupid!

They can talk the talk very convincingly, but I don't buy it. Obviously they can't come out and SAY why, but they know. MA has become a very hostile environment for anyone right of the far left. People are just plain sick and tired of the elephant in the room, the same elephant these liberals refuse to admit is there.

[MinorityRepublican]

That's an interesting graphic.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Here's hopin' the entire Northeast continues to lose influence and population. Disperse the idiot liberals up there amongst the general rural population so their power is diluted.

[thecabal]

That sounds just like the relationship between California and Oregon.

[Katya]

I live in Maryland , and hope to be moving in the not too distant future north to New England. New Hampshire would be my first choice, but Massachussetts only comes in second because of NH's tax benefits. Although we have four abbreviated seasons, from the mid-atlantic to the carolinas...summers can be brutal. Often Spring and Fall are only fleeting, and winter still gets cold. This year we had a splendid spring...but it's certainly not usual.

[george76]

Thanks and I like your tag.

[george76]

New tag line ?

"Massachusetts is almost a textbook virus infected cell."