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Home Front: Politix
Patrick proposes gas tax, income tax hike, plus new taxes and fees
2013-01-17
[BIZJOURNALS] Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday laid tax and fee increases and new taxes on the table, including more than doubling the state's gas tax.
But that's alright. Y'all keep turning out 110 percent Democrat.
He's raising taxes to fund projects instead of maintenance on existing transit. Then he'll come back and raise taxes ... for maintenance on the new stuff. It never ends.
He's seeking more than $1 billion a year in new revenue to fund projects designed to fund public transit and highway operations, reduce MBTA debt and borrow money to double infrastructure spending. Beacon Hill leaders reportedly signaled agreement.
Posted by:Fred

#5  He will see the phenomena of raising taxes... and seeing revenue drop.
Posted by: DarthVader   2013-01-17 12:24  

#4  Yep, and the Soviets still use cloths around their feet,(Instead of socks) about forty years ago WE did too.

(Possibly More, Or backwarf Rubes.)
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-01-17 08:46  

#3  Just remember the families backs in Europe who were unwilling to join those who were kicked out or left on their own accord back before 1914 and what they got to endure for the first half of the 20th Century.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-01-17 08:36  

#2  Y'all could move here to Virginia. Our governor just proposed dropping the gas tax.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2013-01-17 08:24  

#1  We're not called Taxachusetts for nothing...
Posted by: Raj   2013-01-17 00:18  

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