OK, they’ve had their beers, so let’s begin to move on, can we?
And that brings us to Topic A: T-Day in Massachusetts, which begins tomorrow and features a 25% sales tax increase, in addition to an especially onerous new 6.25% tax on alcohol sales at package stores.
As Howie Carr points out in today’s column, there was already an excise tax built into the price, so this represents a tax on top of a tax. I believe very few Massachusetts residents understand this, it’s time to get the word out.
No wonder store owners have already launched an effort to repeal the new 6.25% sales tax on top of the excise tax.
While Carr blames Deval Patrick, I believe in spreading the blame across Beacon Hill. Senate President Therese Murray was quick to impose huge tax increases without any attempt at spending reform and her corrupt cohorts instantly fell into line. Stuffing ca$h into undergarments remains the highest priority there.
Last night, I visited a nearby packy to make some pre-tax purchases and had an interesting conversation with the clerk, who told me they were expecting record crowds today. Extra staff had been added and stock was beefed up overnight to make sure they didn’t run out of key items during today’s anticipated mayhem.
After today, the motivation to purchase beer, wine and spirits in New Hampshire and Rhode Island will be greater than ever for fed-up Massachusetts taxpayers. Expect widespread evasion, which will hurt Bay State business owners and undermine rosy revenue projections for Beacon Hill’s Corruptocrats.
Patrick image: Boston Herald
Just purchased a shiny, red pitchfork from Home Depot, and have plenty of citronella oil with rags & broomsticks.
I hope someone soon sets the Revolution 2 forward.
Marching on Beacon Hill, I would be proud to attack and reclaim my country from these Anti_American Liberals.
Violent action is the only way to remove the current establishment, and I hope it happens
Here in Maine we are busy collecting signatures on a petition which will bring our tax hike to a referendum vote. Is there anything that can be done in your state to get out from under your increases?
Yes, we can move. And God willing we all will one day.
I think you can find pitchforks cheap on eBay. These would be the same pitchforks that the now-impotent Obama said were being wielded by his ‘followers.’ These would be the same ‘followers’ who aren’t anymore. I love irony like this.
Maybe they’ll make it illegal to transport alcohol across the state line(except commercially . Troopers will have random roadblocks and will search your car and fine or imprison you, depending on the amount you’ve got.
More revenue for the state!
I’ve always felt that people who live near the NH border take advantage of the lack of sales tax.
But I still can not understand how any Mass. resident with a sound mind would take the time and the cost of gas, to go to NH to buy their liquor. If one was already in the state, it was always kinda like a tradition to stock up a bit before crossing the MA border……the same way one stocks up on rum of Kahlua when returning from the Carribean.
If it cost say $ 25.00 in gas for a round trip to drive to NH, you’d have to drop $ 425.00 on booze, and maybe 3 hours of time. Rather than $ 450.00 here and 20 minutes in the package store?
And it should be illegal to transport (over a certain amount) across state lines…..like fireworks are down south.
Warning and then fines for repeated offenders…….imprisonment is a bit harsh, Magpie. Did you attend the class taught by Sgt. Crowley?
Boston is say 50 miles from the NH border up 1/95. Population centers MetroWest and MetroNorth are closer. At 25mpg, 4 gallons is needed. About $10. Combine the booze trip with a visit to Home Depot, Best Buy or whatever else you’re buying and you’ve got a big money saver at 6.25%.
Gov Patrick lacks the same basic math skills that make Obama look foolish every time he opens his unbridled mouth about health care costs. The CBO tools him.
It might be somewhat understandable if there were some actual improvements such as roads, but the money is just squandered on paying living expenses for the third world cities in Mass. The news is filled with horrendous stories like the baby being cut out of the murdered woman, the mother who locked her naked 3 yr old kid in a sweltering attic and the guy who threw boiling chicken soup on his girlfriend and her 8 year old daughter…This underclass will soon be the majority and all supported by the shrinking group of workers in Mass.
Anyone have the number fro PBS?
I am hoping we will all write and tell them we don’t want a man who has rage episodes to be in charge of ANY documentary but especially one on racism because raging out of control fools are BAD no matter what color they are!
Oh and add that we will pay close attention to any sponsors that wish to sponsor a documentary that has as a key player a raging out of control man. That is a VERY serious domestic issue!!
capisce?
PS: I go now to purchase my pre tax Belgians
As our rulers prepare once again to increase the burden on the subjects in our Massachusetts tributary mode of production.
Should we call Deval “Lord”?
CROWLEY FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!
MM wants to know if you need a man cave pirate.
How about you staffer. Is that your problem? No man cave? Well maybe if you stopped shaving your legs the other guys would let you in.
Beginning Monday, delivery to the North Shore daily, Monday – Friday. Fresh from New Hampshire. Sugar, Tobacco, Alcohol, etc….
Teddy’s family made their money in a similar way, why not take advantage of the situation.
“In God we trust” everybody else pays cash.
Sorenson – man cave? You know something about them don’t you? Loser.
Working Stiffs,
We are one!
See it, feel it, believe it!!
They keep taxing the little guy to pay off their voting block and protect their cushy govt jobs until WE HAVE NO MORE!!
Soon we will be in burlap sacks! Items from our former times wearing out with no way to replace them! Not luxuries but coats and shoes!! While others are living all curled up comfy in the security of the GOVERNMENT WOMB paid for by the very drippings of our sweat and sacrifice !
They seek to divide and conquer! Do not be distracted from the truth. We are over taxed over burdened, government waste is suffocating and toxic they feed and pad their own futures in a rapacious act against the futures of the working people.
Every one of you fat cat government employees
know you are hiding the truth! And you just want to squeeze more out of the struggling working stiffs to fatten your cushion. That is pure evil. Remember if you stand by and do nothing, especially if you benefit from the crime you may as well have done it yourself. Everyone of you plays a part. You know who you are. You may hide from us but you don’t hide from God.
It’s top heavy.
ONLY government deep cuts will do it.
Balance is only achieved through fairness.
There isn’t any.
Unearned income is toxic to culture. It retards healthy growth of those who receive it and places an unfair burden on those who do earn.
It is exploitation of the poor in order to garner votes and perpetuate greedy lifestyles. All bad for humanity and our culture.
It is not that complicated folks.
Come the end of this month, I begin the first of my monthly shopping trips to Keene. I’ve been using the internet to locate the stores I used to shop here.
For those who scoff at the cost of gas, well, what’s two or three gallons of gas when one gets a 6.25% discount on a month’s worth of office supplies, toiletries and the rest? I’m also wondering if the base prices will be less than those found in Massachusetts stores.
And what I can’t get in NH I can find online, tax-free, usually at a discount and with free shipping.
Deval and his slovenly buddies in the legislature are parasites. If you starve them, they release their grip.
As a resident of a NH border town, can anyone tell me why I’d ever buy liquor or beer in Mass again? A 30 pack was already $4-5 cheaper 3 minutes down the road before the tax hike.
I feel bad for the packy I usually went to, but sorry guys.
And the idea that it should be illegal to bring booze over state line is utterly ridiculous, yet completely typical of the mentality in this state.
Hoss, You feel badly for your local packy? But not so badly that you’d pay $ 4.00 to help keep your neighbors in business?
Go to NH and buy whatever you buy up there, but do us a favor and spare us how “bad” you feel.
By not buying from your local business, to save 4 bucks on beer – you should feel bad.
I feel bad that a quality store is losing business due to stupid governmental decisions. But no, not bad enough to pay (now) an extra $5-6 for the same item.
I don’t feel bad for my decision, I feel bad that I had to make that decision.
No one, not ever, has taxed a population into prosperity. Taking more money out of an economy will not fix a recession. It’s doubly stupid when a way around the tax hike is 30 seconds up the road.
But hey, no one ever accused this state’s leadership of being logical or honest, or their sycophants like you of thinking clearly.
Hoss,
I’m not a sycophant and there’s nothing wrong with my thinking.
I am proud to support both small and my local businesses.
You are a sycophant pirate.
I wish I had thought of that.
You see people don’t have the luxury to do what you are doing. Are you that thick?
You can still feel “bad” without feeling guilty nor responsible. That is the governments job.
Oops. But now they don’t do that do they?.
Every single one of you government workers who know that your job is nothing but fluff and waste yet you keep feeding at the trough of our sweat and sacrifice. Disgusting!
Wish YOU had thought of calling me a sycophant?
Here’s something you can apply some “thought” to…..explains what “feel bad” means. Give it a try, in your own (cough) words.
Sorry-ass-son:
And as far as people not having the luxury to do what I’m doing……let me clue you in, you clueless f**k…….I haven’t spend a nickel on anything except my mortgage payment for longer than I can remember.
Go to NH to buy tax-free? I can’t afford the gas to drive there. Luxury my ass. I own a multi-family property where I live, and I do everything myself, because I can’t afford to hire skilled trades people to do it. My rentals have decreased 24% since I bought, while my property taxes increased 54% the second year I owned it.
To keep colleagues from losing their jobs here where I work, we opted for no pay increases (cost of living) for a year and a half- minimum.
I’m not complaining, I just do what I have to do to make ends meet. But when some anonymous clueless idiot presumes that I am living in luxury, yeah, I’ll speak up.
Pirate, I have a new respect for you. I am up really early because I have a small family business. I can’t afford to hire someone that early in the morning so we do a lot of the wok ourselves. I thought about crossing the line to NH but I too worry about my small local establishments. I will pay the extra and just cut back a bit…..I want to keep my business here as well.
Thanks for the reminder of why we need to keep the business in MA.
I am glad you are waking up to the truth pirate.
We are all one.
We are being sacrificed, led to the slaughter on The gonorrhea of legislation: Obama’s health care plan and Massachusetts “tax us to death and then some” policies.
Welcome aboard!
Ever stop to think that if our Dear Leader simply taxed us less that you might be able to hire those extra employees? Or that other people would be able to afford more of your company’s products and your business would rise accordingly, again allowing you to hire extra employees?
Again: no one, ever, has taxed themselves into prosperity. Every extra penny our government takes from us is another penny removed from the marketplace.
I’m simply baffled that you don’t see this.
I wish it were just about taxes. Of course I don’t want to keep paying and paying when there are no reforms. But I also don’t want to take it out on the small business person.
We also need to reform…smack some of the political hacks and unions down. Get some of our hard earned money out of the pockest of the likes of former speakers of the house….the double dippers who retire and get outrageous benefits.
The small business person is not the problem.