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2008-07-09 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2008-07-09 12:34|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 And, already, the Hacks are mobilizing. With the assistance of the Usual Suspects...

Already, opposition is mobilizing in the state, led by the Coalition for Our Communities, a group comprised of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, several communities, non-profits, businesses and individuals.

The AFL-CIO is calling on all unions to join the coalition and urges on its Web site to oppose "the decimation of local aid to cities and towns, and the inevitable property tax increases to provide the necessary funding for our schools, police and fire protection, emergency medical services and transportation infrastructure."

State officials and legislators also vowed to fight against the repeal, along with interest groups such as the Massachusetts Teachers Association and Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Will it pass? I doubt it. By the time the election rolls around, we'll have seen so many scare ads, lucratively funded by all of the above and others, saying that Massachusetts will become the American Somalia if this passes that people will be terrified to vote for it.
But I signed the petition. And I'm voting for it.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-09 13:05|| 2008-07-09 13:05|| Front Page Top

#2 tu3031 you are correct that it won't pass even though I'll vote for it too.

There's a reason that scum like Kerry, Kennedy and McGovern et. al. keep getting elected.

We already passed a cut in the tax that the legislature totally ignored. I figure that between mini-Obama and the legislature implementation has no chance at all regardless of the actual vote.

BTW Where in our lovely People's Republic do you reside?

Posted by AlanC 2008-07-09 13:58|| 2008-07-09 13:58|| Front Page Top

#3 South Shore. But not on the Irish Riviera...

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-09 15:14|| 2008-07-09 15:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey. Used to live down that way Weymouth, Braintree, Rockland. Now I'm out in the "near-midwest" in the ruins of technology ville.

Posted by AlanC 2008-07-09 17:00|| 2008-07-09 17:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Property taxes are much better than harmful income and consumption taxation that destroys the mutually beneficial exchange of time.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-07-09 20:47|| 2008-07-09 20:47|| Front Page Top

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