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URGENT: Massachusetts readers!!! Election day is upon us and those of you who live in Taxachussetts have an incredible opportunity: YOU can end your State Income Tax and keep your hard earned $3000 a year out of the greedy and wasteful hands of the crooks who govern you.
Vote YES on Proposition 1 to end the Massachusetts income tax.
If you have found the two turkeys the Democrats and the Republicans are running for Governor simply too much alike and too much to stomach: VOTE YES for Carla Howell.
You might even consider voting straight Libertarian, but whatever you do:
Get yo’ ass out there and VOTE YES on Proposition One!!!!
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MommaBear & PoppaBear will be trundling off to the polls, absolutely!
The People’s Republic of Taxachusetts needs to see that there are a LOT of residents who believe that all those “rubber stamps” that sit under that pixillating golden dome are in great need of being snubbed up short by the reins by the only means left: proposition voting.
a) why is someone apparently from ‘ireland’ suggesting how residents of massachusetts vote?
b) how would you suggest we pay for police, fire departments and schools? (oh yeah, you don’t live here)
if you don’t like paying taxes in massachusetts move to new hampshire. I’m sure you’ll love sending your children to the schools up there.
how would you suggest we pay for police,
If that was all Mass. raised taxes for, well, no problem, as taxes would be WAY lower… but it ain’t.
fire departments
Subscription. That is how it used to be done and it worked just fine.
and schools?
Home school or private school for Christ sake! Have you got something against kids?
(oh yeah, you don’t live here)
Actually one of us does.
Jihad666,
“Why is someone apparently from ‘Ireland’ suggesting how people from Massachussets vote?”
What, someone can’t express their opinion? Are people in Taxachussets so sensitive that if anyone outside of the state suggests anything that they implode? While your questions comes off merely as a rhetorical one, I’m concerned that you would rather not hear the question.
“If you don’t like paying taxes in Massachussets move to New Hampshire.”
If I, as a taxpayer, don’t like how my money is being spent, then I am supposed to MOVE??? Why should I move an inch? If you’re suggesting that NH has bad schools, uh, so what? It’s the parents’ responsibilty to educate their children, not the state’s.
Now, I live in California, so I’m sure you’re going to hold that against me. However, I find your arguments a touch disturbing. What I’m hearing is this: If you think the state’s taxes are too high, tough. Move. If you live outside of the state and don’t like taxes, shut up.
Those aren’t arguments. That’s talking like a bully.
If you have reasons folks in Mass. shouldn’t vote for Prop 1, I’d like to hear them.
Besides which, Bostonians have given so much financial assistance and advice to assorted organizations in Northern Ireland that it’s only fair we return the favour 😉
Besides which, I’ll express my opinion about anything I wish to, and if someone doesn’t like it… well, they can go read other blogs and see those are Socialist enough for them.
***** VOTE YES ON PROPOSITION ONE!!!! ******
******* CARLA HOWELL FOR GOVERNOR *******
So there.
A couple of added notes:
1. Not ALL states have an income tax and they seem to operate very well. I know, I live in one –Washington state. We fund our city government (i.e.. police, fire, school district, public works) through a combination of property taxes and sales taxes. (Sales taxes are NOT charged against food, medicine, or services.)
2. The STATE of Massachusetts does NOT fund Boston’s police, fire, etc.. The citizens in Boston do.
3. Sometimes the state, whatever state, needs a swift kick in the ass to wake it up. Maybe, just maybe, the state will be required to sit down and prioritize just exactly what it does and what it NEEDS to do.
Sorry. I live in Massachusetts but I don’t vote.
I guess you aren’t allowed to complain about taxes for at least a year then. 😉
I planned to vote for Carla Howell, but she violated one of my two ironclad rules for candidates. I will never vote for:
1. Former professional jocks.
2. People who refer to themselves in the third person (as Carla does).
Besides which, there is a statistical dead heat between the two main-party candidates, so a vote for a third-party candidate (Libertarian or Green) is effectively a vote for the main-party candidate you would least want to see in office. Since Mass. is effectively a one-party state, I vote Republican whenever possible (for all the good it does). So I’m passing up Carla to vote for Mitt Romney.
But you can bet I’m voting Yes on question 1. It galls me that in all the discussion on that question, none of its advocates make the moral argument (as Ayn Rand did) that a person is entitled to the fruits of his/her labor and risk-taking, and that no one else has an a priori moral claim on my life.
jihad666,
Texas is bigger than Massachusetts both geographically and population-wise, and we get along just fine without an income tax. On top of that, consumer goods and rent and stuff like that costs less over here. Gee, could there be a connection?