More rhetoric behind raising fees, taxes
by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Mar. 30, 2009
Have you noticed how often Gov. Deval Patrick and his coat-holding minions try to justify picking our pockets by saying they’re only lifting the cost of a cup of coffee - or maybe a turkey sandwich?
Last week, at her conveniently scheduled Monday morning “public hearing,” it was Rachel Kaprielian, the hack Registrar of Motor Vehicles and former rep. She defended the Registry’s increased fees, saying the extra $6.50 a year theft from motorists is merely “a couple of cups of Starbucks.”
Before that, it was her boss, Deval, defending his scheme to double the state’s gas tax by claiming it would “only cost . . . the equivalent of one large cup of coffee each week, or about $8 a month.”
Then there was his administration’s “transportation planning document,” which called for a 27-cent increase in the gas tax. No one would even notice the highest gasoline tax in the nation, some anonymous payroll patriot wrote, because the “average user will pay about an additional $120 a year, less than the cost of two small Dunkin’ Donuts coffees per week.”
Well, which is it - Starbucks or Dunkin’?
Next, come on down Jim Aloisi, the transportation secretary whose sister got that very necessary $60,000-a-year job in Kaprielian’s State House office after she quit. Aloisi brushed off the annual cost of the new $6 Turnpike Fast Lane transponder fees by saying it was “less than the cost of the turkey sandwich he just had for lunch.”
The problem is, a cup of coffee here, a turkey sandwich there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money. And how come, if it’s such short money, the state can’t handle the shortfall by, oh, firing a few hacks, starting with Aloisi’s sister?
The reality is, the hacks want to raise your taxes in order to keep their friends’ snouts buried in the public trough. Aloisi himself let the cat out of the bag at his meeting with legislators the day after the Turnpike board rubber-stamped the March 29 toll hike.
According to solons who were there, Aloisi said they couldn’t lay off toll collectors because, number 1, there was a “depression” going on, and number 2, so many of the sticky-fingered millionaires were sent to the Pike by the legislators themselves.
And now we find out not one toll collector has been laid off - not one! And the Pike is still hiring. One new Pike hack is a moonbat from Cambridge named Trellis Stepter. He got his new $90,000 job as “manager of special projects” a few weeks after he ponied up $150 to Deval’s campaign committee. What a coincidence.
Go ahead, have another cup of coffee. Just make it decaf.
turkey sandwich – it’s a tax hike and new fees
wrapped in foodie comparisons by Gov.
Deval Patrick and Secretary James Aloisi.
(Insert photos by DNN Staff)
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