Posted on 01/18/2013 6:00:11 AM PST by suspects
Welcome to the world of “reality TV politics” — or maybe the right word is unreality.
Call it “Liberals Unleashed — 2013!” As hungry for your cash as a “Walking Dead” zombie, as math-challenged as Honey Boo Boo’s mom in a dollar store, and as self-serving as the worst “Bridezilla.”
After six years of exploding state spending and steady tax hikes, is Gov. Deval Patrick even a little embarrassed about pushing a $2.8 billion-per-year income and business tax increase? Not a bit.
President Obama, having jacked up the debt by almost 60 percent in just four years announces it’s time to simply get rid of any ceiling on the debt because what we need is more spending.
Less than a week after a $620 billion tax hike, Democrats in Washington were announcing that it was time for . . . more tax hikes. Nancy Pelosi didn’t even blink (assuming that’s still anatomically possible) when she said, “There’s more to do on the revenue side.”
To paraphrase Joseph Welch to U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy — have you liberals no shame?
In 2011, Patrick increased the budget by 10 percent — $3 billion — in a single year.
Last year, he raised it another $2 billion to $32.5 billion, and he is likely to spend around $35 billion next year.
Many people were aghast when they heard Patrick’s call for nearly $2 billion in net new taxes. The Herald editorial page spoke for most taxpayers yesterday when it declared “Governor, this is WAR!”
But when you keep adding billions in new spending, you need billions in new taxes to pay for it — particularly when Massachusetts has more debt per capita than nearly any other...
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It sounds like Patrick is doing the right thing. Instead of taxing everyone, he is socking it to the two-income liberal professionals who voted him into office. I applaud that. You keep voting for these guys, then you pay for their spending.
It sounds like Patrick is doing the right thing. Instead of taxing everyone, he is socking it to the two-income liberal professionals who voted him into office. I applaud that. You keep voting for these guys, then you pay for their spending.
State subsidize idiots having children,
raise and dumb those children down even further with subsidized, unionized schools until the newly created idiots are old enough to have more babies and to vote,
and thus the cycle is complete and self-perpetuating...even long after the state runs out of money!
Shame? They have no shame. It took them all of ten minutes after the Sandy Hook School massacre to make it political. Parents did not yet know of their children were among the living or among the massacred at that point.
To quote that great philosopher Robin Trower:
“Takers get the honey, givers sing the blues.”
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