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Bay State wants everyone to count ( Mass losing people, money, congressional seats, power ... )
Boston Globe ^ | July 4, 2006 | Andrea Estes

Posted on 07/04/2006 6:44:16 PM PDT by george76

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To: Mr. Jeeves
"A 50% tax cut would be a whole lot more effective. ;)"
Income and state tax load in MA is not too onerous - about 5% each; also many items are excluded from sales taxation [food, drugs, clothing]. It is the general cost of living there, starting with housing.
21 posted on 07/04/2006 7:05:20 PM PDT by GSlob
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22 posted on 07/04/2006 7:05:41 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: golfisnr1
Connecticut is losing also. The Carolinas are the place of choice.

I'm not surprised.I'll be leaving in the not-too-distant future for VA or NC.I won't go any farther south because I need four seasons.

23 posted on 07/04/2006 7:06:42 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: george76

Massachusetts is almost a textbook virus infected cell.

A virus infects the host cell. It hijacks the cell and proceeds to alter the cell and turn it into a virus factory. In the process it kills the cell and all the virii break free and flood to the neighboring cells where they infect them and repeat the process all over again.

Just replace "virus" with "leftist thought".


24 posted on 07/04/2006 7:13:09 PM PDT by Bogey78O (<thinking of new tagline>)
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To: Gay State Conservative; cardinal4

I left MA in Sep 2001 after I lost my wife. I never really liked living in MA because I couldn't stand being around Catholics who continued to send those two abortion-mongers, Kennedy and Kerry, back to the Senate. And my congresscritter, Bill Delahunt, was the guy who was treating with Chavez for cheap oil for the poor in Southie after I left. There are some good people in MA, but they are outnumbered by the bed-wetting limp wrists.


25 posted on 07/04/2006 7:15:26 PM PDT by Ax ("Crusader?" Hey, I kind of like that.)
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26 posted on 07/04/2006 7:15:27 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

1. Housing.
2. Taxes.
3. Schools (esp. Suffolk county).
3a. Enforced policy of multiculturalism.
4. Commute.

There are too damn many people here anyway. I will still be around to hold the fort, plow over the last half of the 20th century, and plant orchards.


27 posted on 07/04/2006 7:16:12 PM PDT by cloud8
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28 posted on 07/04/2006 7:20:02 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
I remember in the 1990 census Ted Kennedy wanted to count only US citizens in the census knowing that counting everyone would hurt Mass.
29 posted on 07/04/2006 7:20:12 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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If those numbers are confirmed by the 2010 federal census, Massachusetts could lose up to two congressional seats

Please, please.

30 posted on 07/04/2006 7:20:48 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: Ax
And my congresscritter, Bill Delahunt, was the guy who was treating with Chavez for cheap oil for the poor in Southie after I left. There are some good people in MA, but they are outnumbered by the bed-wetting limp wrists.

The truly funny (and disgusting) thing about the political landscape of this state is that Barney Frank may well be the most reasonable and respectable member of our Congressional delegation.

31 posted on 07/04/2006 7:21:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Ax; Grampa Dave
Needs repeating

"...outnumbered by the bed-wetting limp wrists."

32 posted on 07/04/2006 7:22:16 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Gay State Conservative; cardinal4

Every time I see Bawney on TV, I can't help but like the guy. What really turns me off is his Hillary-rumpswab of a sister, Anne Lewis. She makes me bahf. My nephew met Bawney at a Synagogue in DC and said that he's really a smart, funny guy.


33 posted on 07/04/2006 7:24:01 PM PDT by Ax ("Crusader?" Hey, I kind of like that.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I disagree that they are clueless, I think they know full well why everyone is leaving. They have also become fluent in liberal speak, so they can feign ignorance on any number of subjects very well. But come on, NO ONE is that stupid!

They can talk the talk very convincingly, but I don't buy it. Obviously they can't come out and SAY why, but they know. MA has become a very hostile environment for anyone right of the far left. People are just plain sick and tired of the elephant in the room, the same elephant these liberals refuse to admit is there.


34 posted on 07/04/2006 7:26:17 PM PDT by gidget7 (PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
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To: george76

That's an interesting graphic.


35 posted on 07/04/2006 7:26:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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To: george76
Here's hopin' the entire Northeast continues to lose influence and population. Disperse the idiot liberals up there amongst the general rural population so their power is diluted.
36 posted on 07/04/2006 7:28:03 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
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To: Bogey78O

That sounds just like the relationship between California and Oregon.


37 posted on 07/04/2006 7:28:55 PM PDT by thecabal ("Now die monkeys and stop saying Muslims are terrorists,we are peaceful people!")
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To: Gay State Conservative

I live in Maryland , and hope to be moving in the not too distant future north to New England. New Hampshire would be my first choice, but Massachussetts only comes in second because of NH's tax benefits. Although we have four abbreviated seasons, from the mid-atlantic to the carolinas...summers can be brutal. Often Spring and Fall are only fleeting, and winter still gets cold. This year we had a splendid spring...but it's certainly not usual.


38 posted on 07/04/2006 7:29:11 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Thanks and I like your tag.


39 posted on 07/04/2006 7:29:20 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Bogey78O

New tag line ?

"Massachusetts is almost a textbook virus infected cell."


40 posted on 07/04/2006 7:30:55 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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