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| Jeff Jacoby - Mass. Exodus |
| 2006-01-15 |
| Cut to the chase: On Beacon Hill last week, the big issue for Massachusetts lawmakers was whether tuition should be reduced for illegal aliens at the state's public colleges. On Capitol Hill, the senior senator from Massachusetts was busy implying that Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. is a racist and a liar. Is it such a stretch to imagine that an awful lot of Americans look at Massachusetts and think: How can people stand to live there? Or that a fair number of Massachusetts residents eventually decide that they can't stand to live here? This is a state in which a tax cut can be decisively approved by the voters yet never go into effect. In which grocers can be prosecuted for pricing milk too low. In which archaic blue laws decree when shops may and may not open for business. In which a $2 billion Big Dig ends up costing $14 billion. In which Ted Kennedy keeps getting reelected. Is it really any wonder so many people are fleeing Massachusetts? Maybe the real mystery is why so many of us stay. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #3 Heck haven't we come far. Back in the Middle Ages the ruling class looted the people to build great monuments called cathedrals while lining their pockets and increasing their power. Their same argument was to buy moral purity because those really working the fields didn't know how to run things and were convinced by their betters that they could buy God's grace by such displays of devotion. Now instead of a church they have the Holy Grace of the Victims a whole ideological structure no less damnedifying than the doctrines of the Medieval church on sin. See your more morally pure than those retches in the other state because you care. Of course you have far less means to create real wealth and employment because the state takes our earnings and property and is thus less efficient in creating new jobs, etc. However, you’re soul is saved. Now kiss my [Harvard] ring. |
| Posted by: Omomose Pheatle6603 2006-01-15 13:27 |
| #2 I grew up in california, but would never, and will never live there again. This is happening all over the country. You know the places, where leftwing elitists pontificate from their jeweled thrones and demand that you smile while they chisel away at your earned income and give it to illegals/welfare class/pointless social programs. All the while getting richer from their barely taxed passive income and at the same time bitching about the republicans cutting taxes for the rich. Sure is getting complicated, isn't it? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-01-15 13:09 |
| #1 I live here, and I'm definitely making plans to leave. I just can't take the smug, patronizing politics any more - and that's the voters. The state govt. is beyond fixing. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-01-15 12:00 |