Posted on 03/03/2008 5:35:18 AM PST by GQuagmire
NATICK - You could call them the Override Moms - politically powerful suburban women who lobby for property tax increases to pay for teachers, new schools, and better classroom gear for their school-aged children. Think soccer moms, with an activist bent. In one community after another, these mothers have banded together in common cause. They are nimble and they are quick, often performing with the agility and strategy of an expert strike force.
With at least 40 Eastern Massachusetts cities and towns planning to ask voters for more than $50 million over the next few months, this is the make-or-break season for thousands of these young mothers dedicated to persuading neighbors to vote themselves a tax hike.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
End women’s suffrage and give voting rights only to people who own property.
Because people are incapable of managing the money they have, they prefer to demand more!
“More is never enough!”
No one is preventing them from voluntarily sending in more money for taxes. G’head...knock yer socks off!
For years Massachusetts has had a block on its annual income tax form allowing people to pay more taxes than they owe. It was put there by people like these. According to WRKO, less than 3/4 of one percent of state taxpayers have ever done so. The lie about “people wanting to pay more taxes” is simply more Marxist bullshit from the Globe,a paper failing even faster than its parent, the New York Times. At its current rate of decline, the Globe will be gone before 2025.
Sure. Many communities have relatively wealthy, politically involved, socialist residents. They genuinely believe that it's best for everyone to have the government take more of their resources, and then have the government decide how everything should be. Especially if they get people like themselves elected to Town Council and so on.
They want everyone to pay in order to build their personal vision of utopia. Nothing new here. Soviet Russian, anyone? Cuba?
Actually, I heard the Fox Sports Radio sports business expert over the weekend tell host Dave Mahler and the rest of us how enlightened Oklahoma City is because they’ve continually raised taxes for so-called quality of life improvements like sports stadiums for multimillion dollar teams. Appalling.
Yes. Here in Maryland (the Land of Peasant Living).
“At its current rate of decline, the Globe will be gone before 2025.”
That is not saying much. I too will be gone before 2025.
Property owners,
or my idea is that only net tax PAYERS can vote.
THEY don’t want to pay more taxes,
they want OTHERS to pay more taxes to pay for the services that they enjoy.
Socialism is driven by greed for the unearned, and the lust for power over the lives of others.
In my experience, every “wealthy socialist” that I’ve encountered or read about acquired their wealth too “easily”,
and figures everyone else that is wealthy did likewise.
Wealthy folks that had to work hard and make tough decisions (sacrifices) along the way don’t tend to support socialism.
Anyway, here we are just over a year later and the school is pushing for another override, and to demonstrate their "fiscal responsibility" they have decided to close that old school.
I guess they could have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by making that decision a year ago.
/s
When they can no longer afford to live up north they move here where they soon begin to complain that it’s not like it was up there. Next they try to bring all they left behind down here. Where they moving next? And how soon are they going? ;)
Unfortunately, the husbands of these women are too busy busting their a#$% to know what their wives are doing.
Wake up MEN and control your women! (only slightly sarcastic)
“Yet they have their detractors, none more notable than Barbara Anderson, executive director of Marblehead-based Citizens for Limited Taxation, which created Proposition 2 1/2, ½the state statute that prohibits towns from raising property taxes more than 2.5 percent per year without voter approval. Critics say it is starving municipalities of needed revenue.
“These are people who have the spare time to do this,” said Anderson. “They are obsessed with what they want for their kids, which is a private school experience that they don’t have to pay for themselves.”
Barbara is right on.
My experience with the wealthy is very limited :-). There was my Dad’s cousin whose father was a Standard Oil bigshot, but he was insane, so he’s not indicative of others.
The women in the article seem to have acquired their (relative) wealth by marriage.
But, that's the point. He doesn't want to pay higher taxes. Neither does almost everyone else. Why is that so hard for these people to understand?
I wonder if Kennedy or Patrick or Dukakis checked the box?
These are not "altruistic suburban" women, these are pigs feeding at the govt funding trough squealing for more slush to be pushed their way. We have this same phenomenon here in MN.
These people are not pushing to pay more taxes themsevles. They are pushing for YOU to pay more taxes so THEY can get more funding for their Govt budgets.
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