Posted on 02/14/2010 5:27:26 PM PST by cmj328
As part of an effort to make Concord more affordable and diverse, local officials want to shift the tax burden off most property owners and onto the town’s wealthiest residents.
The long-shot proposal, which some say is unconstitutional, calls for imposing a local income tax to help offset the town’s dependence on property taxes to fund its operations.
“It’s not a tax increase, but a shifting of the burden,’
[snip]
“If we’re lucky, this could happen in 15 to 20 years. But if you don’t start somewhere, it would never ever happen.’’
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
It was the Center for Small Government (Carla Howell & Michael Cloud) who initiated it, and I believe in the last email I received it said they had so many signatures that the pinky-ring union thugs (aka the Massachusetts Teachers Association) didn’t bother to challenge any!
Look for the question in November! Also look for the ludicrous whining from the public sector unions about how armageddon will come if the question passes. “It’s just too risky...for the chilllllldren!”
Oh, I don’t doubt that the first response of the Mass. legislature will be to consider increases in fees or new types of taxes if the ballot question passes.
That is, unless some key demonrats also get the bum’s rush on the same ballot. They may have to...gasp...make cuts in the public sector?!? They have managed to avoid doing that even now, as vacant storefronts are becoming more noticeable and foreclosures growing more pronounced. I wonder if they think no one has noticed?
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Here’s one for ya. We live up on the Yukon, pretty rural. I have a neighbor from Springfield Mass. He has a cabin here and spends summers, just retired. Plans on moving to Ak for good. Old Schultz tells me things I find hard to believe. He actually had a neighbor turn in another neighbor for having a atv trailer in back yard, ha. I take him downriver in my boat to moose camp and had him up in my bear stand last summer. He didn’t want a gun, just take pictures. He wants to shoot some caribou so he says; I’ll wait and see.
Let me just piss off alot of folks. Here in Tennessee we have no state income tax and all sales tax receipts are 100% deductible against our federal return. The state is not broke and will function fine within their means. Liberals are ruining your respective states. Period
Mr. Galt, warming up in the wings...
HA! Come to the supposed "sane" midwest! Here in Columbus, our sales tax is 7.25% and our city income tax is 2.5%. Plus we have a state income tax.
The only thing we don't have that you guys do is the excise tax on your cars.
LOL! The "diversity" the morons end up with obviously will not include the fleeing "wealthiest residents".
I am still proud of Tennessee for b!+ch-slapping that scumbag Sundquist and his income tax.
Whaddayaknow - - the world did not come to an end in Tennessee without an income tax.
The Governor now is a business man first. I hate to see him go. He is a Democrat but is of the old school. He helps when he can but will sacrifice to bring good to the people. His name is Bredesen.
I heard of Phil Bredesen, and heard nothing bad...
I guess the only surprise is that he’s a Democrat.
Which rich? Trust fund babies or corporate CEO's In other words the idle rich or the nouveau riche.
I get to NYC on a fairly regular basis (2 or 3 times a month) and the sales tax there is 8.25%.Ours,currently,is 6.25% (having been recently raised from 5%) and it looks as if there's gonna be a ballot question this November to lower it.I wouldn't be surprised if the question passed.OTOH,regardless of what our sales tax is something like two-thirds of the state's population lives within a 30 minute drive of two huge shopping malls in sales tax free New Hampshire.
He’s a real Democrat and not some poser on Capital Hill. He refuses to attach his name to anybody. I applaud him for the steady hand that he has guided with during this time.
He sounds a little like the only Democrat I ever voted for, Governor Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, who ran for re-election against a pro-abortion RINO named Barbara Hafer in 1990. Casey was an old-fashioned Democrat who, if he was still alive, would be appalled at the communist takeover of his party. Alas, the old-fashioned Democrats are dying off.
That was me in the '80s (lived in Woburn). I went to the big mall in Nashua (Pheasant Lane?) to buy my first stereo TV, and always bought all my booze in NH.
The rich people will just move away.
Can someone please explain the logic of raising taxes while the economy is down?
Lets see - more folks un and under employed, thus tax revenues down. Spending is down overall due to less security and less discretionary funds.
Thus, logically, states (or cities, or the federal government) then has a shortfall in budgeted receipts. OK so far.
So, while the consumers (taxpayers) are tightening their belt, the government just wont’ even think of any true effective cuts to their budget - instead they decide to grab MORE in taxes, thus further reducing spending. But again - at least big brother gets his cut first...
This is just stupid.
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