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Article 5-26-09

Voters taken for another ride on state income tax

by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

For those 2,063,891 of you Massachusetts voters who last year refused to abolish the state income tax because it wasn’t the “responsible” thing to do, I have a question. Are you happy now, dopes?

They told you if we abolished the income tax, they’d have to raise the state sales tax.

Now they’re raising the state sales tax anyway - by 25 percent.

They told you if we abolished the income tax, they’d just have to bring it back.

So now these emboldened hacks are threatening to jack the income tax up to 5.95 percent. It’s “for the children,” you know. And the most vulnerable members of our society - the ones with the welfare Cadillacs and the AAA road service that you can’t afford.

It didn’t have to happen this way. But the pinky-ring public-sector hack unions spent over $7 million on TV spots and mailings to convince you that you needed a 5.3 percent increase in your paycheck less than the hackerama did.

Boy, were you 2,063,891 stupid. No offense, but the payroll Charlies really picked your pockets this time, didn’t they? They’re handing out brand-new, six-figure jobs to all their friends and relatives, and you’re paying for it.

The hacks are no longer afraid of the taxpayers, and why should they be? Seventy percent of you can’t even figure out what your own self-interest is.

I mention this today not just because of the week’s billion-dollar frenzy of tax hikes at the State House, but also because of what happened Tuesday in California. The pinky-ring unions out there put tax hikes on the ballot, and they used the exact same take-cops-and-kids-hostage playbook that worked so flawlessly for the hacks here last fall.

But out there the voters nixed every tax increase, in landslides. I guess the voters in California are smarter than we - I mean, you -are. Don’t blame me, I’m one of the 30 percent, those 901,802 people who actually got it.

Did you see what Sen. Gale Candaras of Wilbraham said during the Senate’s tax-raising bender the other night? She compared the state’s out-of-control spending to a game of cards.

“Sometimes in the deck you’re dealt,” she said, “there’s absolutely no good card.”

Amazing. These hacks have been dealing from the bottom of the deck for decades, and now they’re complaining that they’re looking at a hand full of threes and fours.

Thirty percent of us ask the other 70 percent of you: When are you people going to wake up?

Our photographer captures a patron sipping on beer
at a tavern just miles shy of the New Hampshire border.
The owner tells DNN that his business would be
devastated if a higher state sales tax is mandated.
(DNN Staff photo)

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