Mass residents - vote YES on 1 !

[fishbones]

Originally Posted by Nebe

you guys crack me up..


all the towns have to do is change the taxable % of the value of your home. Lets say they charge $1.00 to every $200 per quarter... All that the towns would have to do is raise it to $2.00 or even $3.00

Taxes are unavoidable and a part of life.

Oh and yes, it is patriotic to pay taxes. We we stopped paying them, we could not drop bombs on terrorists.

At least in Mass, any proposed tax rate increase has to be voted on. Maybe in RI it's different, and it wouldn't suprise me with the way RI government operates. You pay way too much for the services the state provides for you.

[FishermanTim]

If it does pass, and for some unbelievbable reason the state doesn't ingore it, do you seriously think that the political hogs would ever alter their own spending tactics?

Every normal, regular, logical and ETHICAL person, faced with a financial hardship/loss/decrease would take steps to adjust their own spending habits. They'd cut back on their wasteful spending and try to conserve their cash for emergencies and essentials.
Try and get a politician to think that way would require a "rectal lobotomy". They would feel no remorse by cutting funding to essential services but would rally 'round the flag if they suddenly had to pay for their own vehicles, fuel, meals, "work" vacations, and in some cases their rent/mortgage.

The radio/tv ads for question #1 are nothing more than scare tactics, trying to basically get people to vote to give their money to the same fools that were wasting before.

Can you say (from "Animal House" pledge scene):
"Thank you sir, can I have another?"

I say we shake things up. We voted on a tax rollback some years ago, and they illegally ignored that, so we're going for the whole ball of wax.
They wouldn't allow us to keep ONLY 0.5% more of our money, so now we're going after ALL 5:65%.

If it passes and they ignore it, whoever votes to override it should be driven out of office once and for all.

[Backbeach Jake]

You've gotta be kidding!

[Mike P]

Every time I hear "Taxachusetts" I want to split my sides laughing. You guys really don't know how good you have it. You use New Hampshire as a yardstick--a state that provided almost no services until half of Mass north of Boston decided to move there, and a state that owns every packy inside its borders. Do you have any idea how much revenue those state liquor stores bring into NH?

You want to complain about taxes? Move to New York, where you have a much higher income tax, an 8.5% sales tax (on everything, including clothing), and 5 figure property taxes on 2000 square foot houses on 100' x 60' lots. Move to New Jersey where you have an equally high income tax, a 7% sales tax and even higher property taxes--$20,000 a year is not unheard of, and that's not for waterfront properties assessed at over a million bucks. It's for 2500 square foot houses on normal sized lot, miles from the ocean.

Hell--just move to RI. Do they still tax personal property like cars and boats at 100% valuation, the way they did 25 years ago? I pay under $50 in excise tax for a 5 year old Jeep.