Posted on 06/13/2007 8:51:21 PM PDT by george76
You’ve heard of the “tax-anything-that-moves” crowd?
Well they were out in full force at the State House yesterday - under the able direction of their movement’s founding father, former Gov. Michael Dukakis, who is establishing his place as the Jimmy Carter of ex-Bay State governors.
Dukakis and a group of Democratic lawmakers were there to lobby for a bill that would finance billions in commuter rail expansion projects by taxing - you guessed it! - just about anything that moves.
Literally.
For starters there’d be a new tax on all vehicles - a “greenhouse gas reduction fee” - tied to vehicle registration fees. That’s on top of the existing sales and excise taxes, the gas tax and the various and sundry other government penalties for the offense of (gasp!) driving a car in the commonwealth.
There’d be a new hotel tax ...
a new tax on every trolley tour and whale watch ticket ...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
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a “greenhouse gas reduction fee” ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Soon they will be taxing the whales who watch the tours
Massachusetts taxes will also increase because they will
target that extra money that MA citizens now need for the
direct, and indirect, and coming costs of Romney’s
insane socialized medicine plan that he imposed without vote
to cover the growing infected illegal alien population.
Compared to the current Governor, Dukakis looks like Reagan.
Coupe Deval seems likely to equal Dukakis in overall slimeiness and destructiveness but only a scumbag like Noam Chomsky could ever surpass him.
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