It's kind of sad to see that the folks of Boston have so easily forgotten their own local history. I guess decades of Kennedys and Kerrys have taken the fight out of them.
Posted on 03/03/2007 10:12:58 PM PST by raccoonradio
Mumbles Menino is so desperate to grab some of that new meals tax money, he’s starting to sound like Popeye’s old friend Wimpy.
The mayor of Boston goes out Friday talking about hamburgers, and how this proposed tax increase would only cost you 18 cents on a $9 bacon double cheese with fries, which will work out great down the road because your property taxes will go down by thousands of dollars because of that extra 18 cents.
In short, Mumbles will gladly give you a tax cut Tuesday for an 18-cent hamburger tax today.
It’s a scam of course. Gov. Coupe Deval’s budget is so bogus he’s lucky nobody called the bunco squad. On Thursday, the legislative leadership unleashed its own moonbats to put a rocket in his pocket. Rep. Alice Wolf of the People’s Republic of Cambridge blistered Deval’s budget chief for the governor’s proposal to hose, among so many others, the MWRA ratepayers. Ratepayers? Alice Wolf? Who knew she cared?
Then Rep. David Linsky of Natick, who pays his own income taxes only when he feels like it, asked how the Mumbles’ meals (and hotel) tax would help his town of Sherborn, considering that Sherborn has exactly one restaurant (a coffee shop), and no hotels.
The short answer: It wouldn’t. Not in the least.
As for Deval’s alleged property-tax relief, Linsky said it wouldn’t mean much in a town like Sherborn, where the average property-tax bill is $12,000. The “circuit-breaker,” in other words, is a typical liberal shell game, tax relief for people who don’t pay taxes, a sop to “working families” who don’t work.
But don’t tell Mumbles. Dammit, he needs that hamburger tax. Since revaluation, he’s squeezing an extra $69 million out of the city’s homeowners. And it’s just not enough, not when you have to keep paying off all the greedy municipal unions that keep rolling Mumbles, one after another.
So Mumbles moves endlessly throughout the city, stumping for higher taxes, stressing “our commitment to the spirit of Bosh-thin.”
Yes, that’s what he called it, Bosh-thin. Other times, it sounds like he’s talking about “Koston.” Occasionally, he simply calls the city “Boss,” as in “Boss has become so strong in so many ways.”
And yet the Blutos of Beacon Hill would begrudge this man a simple hamburger tax. Consider, in Mumbles’ own words, what he has accomplished:
“We are putting 190 new police officer on the streets. . . Thousand people use it. . . and my commitment to eliminate racial and ethic gaps in all areas a special, especially academic achievement.”
Who could oppose eliminating the ethic gap?
“All of youse, let’s continue to work together,” Mumbles tells us. “That’s why we here today.”
Let other posturing pols go to gala openings. Mumbles prefers to attend “opens,” as in, “Every one of these opens I go to . . .”
The man doesn’t mind sharing the credit either. At Northeastern, Mumbles lauded the city’s tech neck works networks. Then there’s Fidelity. Even as the Johnsons flee the city (and the state), Mumbles praises the investment giant for so generously supporting the Boston Pops, or, as he says, the “Popses.”
Some solons, even those from the city, grumble that Mumbles is a buffoon who will only squander new windfalls he gets from the hamburger tax. But this is a bum rap. Mumbles is a big thinker on issues like criminal justice.
“Ya know, when a kid gets sentenced the parents has, should, go, has, should have to go through some training also.”
Higher education - you may call him a dreamer, but he’s not the only one.
“It’ll be the five large university in our city came together.”
But, to paraphrase Edgar Allan Poe, he grows old, this dolt so bold, and o’er his heart a shadow, falls as he finds no spot of ground, that looks like a hamburger tax.
“I wanna say ummmm I’m the senior moment. OK? Senior moment of uhhh senior person. I don’t know what I am but I’m here.”
Yes, you are. And that is the burden Bosh-thin must bear.
Well some places will charge you about $7.99 or so for a burger plate...we're not talking McDonald's or Wendy's,
maybe a place like the 99 or TGIFriday's...a big burger,
fries, etc. I could guess maybe fancier places might charge
$9 or so
That's true. Come to think of it, one restaurant locally goes even higher -- but both their burgers and steaks have long been way overpriced. Their new menu has jacked up prices on everything else, so I think we'll be frequenting them less.
Yes he really does talk like that. He would like to "thank wu" for attending the "Red Sock" game.
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