Massachusetts ballot initiative - you'll love this one.

[bblight]

I got my Massachusetts "information for voters" pamphlet in the mail - I crack it open to read it and to my surprise Question One is an initiative to reduce income taxes to 2.65% from the current rate of 5.95%

I wasn't sure I read it properly and I went back and re-read it and it's true - I can vote to reduce my income taxes to 2.65%

I don't care if I die the day before election day, I will be there to cast my vote in favor of this reduction in my income tax rate and slap at the commies who run this state.

Wow - this will be like Christmas - I'm already excited about it.


Another initiative on the ballot is question two to de-criminalize Marijuana.

I'd usually vote yes for this common sense legislation, but I'm voting against it in respect to my good buddy JoeC. My wife will also vote against it.



I love Democracy!

 

[cussin'it]

My question to you, actually the Mass legislature, would be if they are going to reduce your state income taxes, then what are they going to raise to offset that reduction in revenue?

Old saying "cure is worse than the disease" comes to mind.

Do you folks in Mass pay high fees to register your cars each year? High property taxes on personal property, like houses, cars, boats...?

 

[bblight]

My question to you, actually the Mass legislature, would be if they are going to reduce your state income taxes, then what are they going to raise to offset that reduction in revenue?

Old saying "cure is worse than the disease" comes to mind.

Do you folks in Mass pay high fees to register your cars each year? High property taxes on personal property, like houses, cars, boats...?

We have propostion 2 & 1/2 supposedly limiting our property taxes to 2.5% of the fair market value of our property.

There's an "Excise" tax we pay for the privelege of owning an auto - it's pegged to age and resale value.

I pay a separate tax for water and trash pickup (I have a septic system or they'd also soak me for my shit).

I pay fees for my drivers license.

The gas tax is supposed to pay for roads and bridges - but that money now pays for graft.

The state has a 5% sales tax and 7% meal tax.

There are a ton of other taxes on "luxury" items such as ciggarettes and alcohol.

They just went up on the Mass Pike tolls from $5 to $8.50 (so the radio tells me)

As for paying for any taxation short falls if this new income tax were to happen - I would expect a consumption tax of some kind.

The way I see it is these morons are already looking to increase our taxes to support the Health insurance program that wasn't going to cost us anything exrtra - so they'll have to scramble to come up with with something or maybe cut illegals and vagrants off.

As for taxing me and mine - anything they do can't be much worse than what they've already done or are planning to do.

They've been ignoring infrastructure and vital services for years
No matter what happens, I will enjoy watching the commies go down in flames.

 

[Willie99]

My question to you, actually the Mass legislature, would be if they are going to reduce your state income taxes, then what are they going to raise to offset that reduction in revenue?

Old saying "cure is worse than the disease" comes to mind.

Do you folks in Mass pay high fees to register your cars each year? High property taxes on personal property, like houses, cars, boats...?

Cuzz, the leftie locks in the Northeast, pay the most in state and local taxes in every way shape and form. People move elsewhere in large part to escape the tax rape. I bet CA is right up there as well.

It's what the left does, and that's no joke.

 

[cincy_]

I got my Massachusetts "information for voters" pamphlet in the mail - I crack it open to read it and to my surprise Question One is an initiative to reduce income taxes to 2.65% from the current rate of 5.95%

You JUST found out???? You need to get out more ... read a newspaper, maybe.

Maybe tomorrow the Red Sox will send you a letter saying how they won the World Series in 2004.

 

[bblight]

You JUST found out???? You need to get out more ... read a newspaper, maybe.

Maybe tomorrow the Red Sox will send you a letter saying how they won the World Series in 2004.

Someone wrote a post about the "four" branches of government with the media being the fourth branch - someone from Massachusetts or one of the other commie run states would understand exactly what that post means.

You have to recognize that the Massachusetts main stream media is on the side of the Commie government and won't tell you anything they don't want you to know - You won't find it unless you look for it - and you can't look for it if you don't know it's out there.

 

[cincy_]

What I meant was that I knew about this tax weeks ago.

Hell, I even know that it's Issue I on the ballot.

Do you listen to Michael Graham on 96.9? He talks about it all the time.

 

[bblight]

What I meant was that I knew about this tax weeks ago.

Hell, I even know that it's Issue I on the ballot.

Do you listen to Michael Graham on 96.9? He talks about it all the time.

Howie Carr is my main man - but I've been putting in so many hours at work over the past few months, I don't even get to hear him.

 

[Georgiaboy]

Absolutely no way in hell I would live in Mass. Bend over and take when it comes to taxes. Freaking unreal.

 

[cincy_]

Absolutely no way in hell I would live in Mass. Bend over and take when it comes to taxes. Freaking unreal.

If people didn't live in places because of taxes, there would be 2,000 people in NYC and 12,000,000 people in Hicktown, Georgia.

 

[MIKEY.1TIME]

We have propostion 2 & 1/2 supposedly limiting our property taxes to 2.5% of the fair market value of our property.

There's an "Excise" tax we pay for the privelege of owning an auto - it's pegged to age and resale value.

I pay a separate tax for water and trash pickup (I have a septic system or they'd also soak me for my shit).

I pay fees for my drivers license.

The gas tax is supposed to pay for roads and bridges - but that money now pays for graft.

The state has a 5% sales tax and 7% meal tax.

There are a ton of other taxes on "luxury" items such as ciggarettes and alcohol.

They just went up on the Mass Pike tolls from $5 to $8.50 (so the radio tells me)

As for paying for any taxation short falls if this new income tax were to happen - I would expect a consumption tax of some kind.

The way I see it is these morons are already looking to increase our taxes to support the Health insurance program that wasn't going to cost us anything exrtra - so they'll have to scramble to come up with with something or maybe cut illegals and vagrants off.

As for taxing me and mine - anything they do can't be much worse than what they've already done or are planning to do.

They've been ignoring infrastructure and vital services for years
No matter what happens, I will enjoy watching the commies go down in flames.

we do pay a lot, but if you are paying a 7% meal tax, somebody is porking you 2%

 

[Georgiaboy]

If people didn't live in places because of taxes, there would be 2,000 people in NYC and 12,000,000 people in Hicktown, Georgia.

Your wrong, not enough to do in Hicktown.

 

[steaktartar]

Your wrong, not enough to do in Hicktown.

it's you're

 

[bblight]

we do pay a lot, but if you are paying a 7% meal tax, somebody is porking you 2%

I thought Devals proposed 2% addition passed the legislature - if not, I apologize.