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Gas Tax and Toll Increases in Massachusetts

I have to laugh at the media’s coverage of all of this. DiMasi’s advocacy for the tax hike will put the highly controversial issue at the top of the agenda as lawmakers arrive for their new session in seven weeks. And it will reshape the battle over the large toll increases the Turnpike Authority wants [...]

Taxachusetts: The Same As It Ever Was

Michael Graham on why MA is the same as it’s always been. You know, they told me that if I voted yes on Question 1, I’d see massive tax and toll hikes. They were right! A $500 million corporate tax hike earlier this year, two toll hikes that will more than double what we paid [...]

Can’t Get a Job in Massachusetts

Some folks in MA can’t get jobs. Anastos’s story is becoming increasingly common as thousands of unemployed Massachusetts workers flood the job market and find few businesses hiring in the face of the economic downturn. First-time claims for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts have surged about 30 percent from a year ago, according to the US [...]

MA Tolls and Gas Prices Going Up

Not surprising at all and two more reasons why I left Massachusetts. Because for their next trick, the tax-fattened hyenas who run this rotten kleptocracy of a state are going to hike the gasoline tax. This time everybody will get whacked. See, there just aren’t enough of us Pike commuters left to steal from anymore, [...]

And Here’s Why Massachusetts Sucks So Incredibly Much

And here’s why Taxachusetts has become such a miserable hell-hole to live in. – A continuous veto-proof Democratic legislature where those in the middle class and those who run small businesses have no voice? – Exorbitantly costly union-favorable prevailing wage laws, project labor agreements, responsible employer ordinances, costly three tier liquor industry, anarchistic item price [...]

The History of the Income Tax in Massachusetts

Some great information here that clearly illustrates why an income or sales tax in New Hampshire would do absolutely nothing to lower property taxes. Income and sales taxes NEVER lower property taxes, they just add to the existing tax burden. Are you paying attention New Hampshire voters? Don’t be fooled by the pro-income tax crowd. [...]