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Patrick proposes gas tax hike among
new taxes, fees for transportation
Boston Business Journal, by Galen Moore
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Posted By:lostinmassachusetts, 1/16/2013 2:12:29 PM
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday laid tax and fee increases and new taxes on the table, including more than doubling the state´s gas tax. He's seeking more than $1 billion a year in new revenue to fund projects designed to fund public transit and highway operations, reduce MBTA debt and borrow money to double infrastructure spending. Beacon Hill leaders reportedly signaled agreement.
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Coming soon to a federal government near you. Check out the specific ´revenue enhancement.´ This will be a huge burden on the middle class, whom the Democrats have vowed to protect.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 1/16/2013 2:24:03 PM (No. 9120414)
Poor hardest hit, but will continue to pull the voting lever marked ´D´...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Stlouislaxbros dad, 1/16/2013 2:27:30 PM (No. 9120421)
Read the comments under the article itself.
The state of Mass has apparently lied in the past about what the money was intended for...as opposed to where it actually went.
Guess the Democrat Governor up there figured out that "soaking the rich" for their "fair share" would not give enough money.... so... guess who gets hit the most?
The middle class who keep voting for the Dems because of what the Dems say..and ignore what the Dems actually do.
Seems the words "fair share" actually means "fare share"... everybody pays to ride the Dems bus.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
john56, 1/16/2013 2:41:49 PM (No. 9120453)
Suckers.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
sinic, 1/16/2013 2:43:33 PM (No. 9120455)
Moved to SC 3+ years ago...I miss MA like I miss a bad case of the flu. My God, I pity the poor people who are stuck in that God awful DemocRAT hurlhole.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/16/2013 2:58:49 PM (No. 9120500)
Oh come on now - they´re not taxes - they´re FEES!
/s off/
Taxachusetts
Feeachusetts
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lazlototh, 1/16/2013 3:13:24 PM (No. 9120534)
If Massachusetts keeps voting for and electing people in favor of higher taxes, its residents should accept higher taxes as the desired outcome of their votes.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Susannah, 1/16/2013 3:25:32 PM (No. 9120557)
Patrick was due to be voted out of office in 2010, so the Democrats, in desperation, prevailed on one of their own to run as an "Independent" third party candidate. That guy siphoned off enough votes from Charlie Baker, the Republican candidate, so that Patrick was re-elected with a 47% plurality. Otherwise Baker would have won easily.
Patrick is a lot less popular than Scott Brown.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Philipsonh, 1/16/2013 4:18:40 PM (No. 9120645)
The Ma. Governor must not realize that a gas tax is REGRESSIVE and he is in a PROGRESSIVE party. The lower the income, the higher the % of it you pay for fuel ( taxes ).
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ASAvet, 1/16/2013 4:49:57 PM (No. 9120714)
Another Democrat "paradise" that re-elected a Democrat cockroach to run the state. You get what you vote for.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 1/16/2013 5:02:16 PM (No. 9120729)
What a contrast of blue states to red states. Governors in red states are moving to eliminate state income taxes or gas taxes. Red state governors are still raising taxes. Next census, MA, IL, and MI will lose more electoral votes and TX, SC, etc. will pick them up.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 1/16/2013 6:40:02 PM (No. 9120933)
#8 has Patrick´s number. This guy says the state needs more money to maintain the ´infrastructure´. Yet he continues to support such extravagances as in-state tuition for illegal aliens and state-sponsored sex re-alignment treatments for convicted felons, while also opposing measures to combat rampant welfare and medicare abuse and fraud. I call him "mini-O" because he´s a clone of the affirmative-action occupant of the Oval Office.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MHR, 1/16/2013 7:26:19 PM (No. 9121037)
Agree with #8, we´ve had great Republican Gov´s here....Patrick was on his way out until they set things up.....He won´t be re-elected
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday laid tax and fee increases and new taxes on the table, including more than doubling the state´s gas tax. He's seeking more than $1 billion a year in new revenue to fund projects designed to fund public transit and highway operations, reduce MBTA debt and borrow money to double infrastructure spending. Beacon Hill leaders reportedly signaled agreement.
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