Hey moonbats of Massachusetts - why won’t you pay more taxes?
You’re always lecturing the rest of us how taxes are an investment in the future, the price we pay for civilization, etc., etc. But when given the option of personally paying your fair share, hey, come back here, you pony-tailed trust-fund recipient you.
Put your hands up and step away from the Prius - slowly. What about the children?
As the deadline for filing 2009 state income taxes nears, once again the Beautiful People of Massachusetts are proving that while they enjoy talking the talk, walking the walk is another thing altogether.
We have a two-tier income tax in this state, you know. You have the option of paying either at the standard rate of 5.3 percent, or at the old, higher 5.85 percent rate.
As of Wednesday, here are this years numbers, according to the state DOR:
Of 1,840,000 state tax filers, exactly 931 have opted to pay taxes at the higher rate. That works out to one-twentieth of one percent. Think of it this way: In 2000, only 60 percent of the Massachusetts electorate voted to cut the income tax, but a decade later 99.95 percent of the population has decided to take advantage of the tax cut a lot of them claimed they didn’t want or need.
The moonbat motto is: Do as I say, not as I do. Consider the charitable deductions (or lack thereof) of the most sanctimonious liberal politicians: Obama, Biden, Kerry. They throw around quarters - their own, anyway - like they were manhole covers. But they would gladly give you the shirt off somebody else’s back.
In Massachusetts, these 931 volunteers had to come up with an additional $54,500, enough to pay Billy Bulger’s pension for just over three months. So the average volunteer moonbat who decided to pay the extra .55 percent this year had a 2009 income of about $12,000.
As pitiful as those numbers are, they’re better than they were at this time last year, when 1.831 million taxpayers had filed, and only 731 ponied up. But those 731 chipped in $70,232, which means last year’s moonbats had an average income of $19,000.
Of course these Birkenstock-clad carpetbaggers from New York have their excuses for not paying the higher taxes they’re so adamant about wanting to impose on the rest of us. After all, they do a lot of public service . . . sending those no-nonsense letters to the editor of the boring broadsheet they no longer pay to read, putting the blast on greedy Republicans. Plus nowadays they write their own blogs denouncing the troop buildup in Afghanistan and how high gasoline prices are bankrupting the country and it’s all Bush’s . . . er, never mind.
I forgot to ask Gov. Deval Patrick Thursday if he’s volunteering to pay more taxes this year, so I e-mailed the question to his office Friday. No response, which I guess means he stands with that 99.95 percent of his constituents.
In case anyone is wondering, the "Moonbats" piece is from the Boston Herald, a "right wing rag" to use Hag's parlance.
I expect everyone to pay the lowest amount of taxes allowable under the law. That is human nature and that is our role as taxpayers.
It is the state's role to have the most efficient tax system possible to raise the the revenue needed to run the state, the scope of which is determined by the people through their elected representatives.
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Hey moonbats of Massachusetts - why won’t you pay more taxes?
You’re always lecturing the rest of us how taxes are an investment in the future, the price we pay for civilization, etc., etc. But when given the option of personally paying your fair share, hey, come back here, you pony-tailed trust-fund recipient you.
Put your hands up and step away from the Prius - slowly. What about the children?
As the deadline for filing 2009 state income taxes nears, once again the Beautiful People of Massachusetts are proving that while they enjoy talking the talk, walking the walk is another thing altogether.
We have a two-tier income tax in this state, you know. You have the option of paying either at the standard rate of 5.3 percent, or at the old, higher 5.85 percent rate.
As of Wednesday, here are this years numbers, according to the state DOR:
Of 1,840,000 state tax filers, exactly 931 have opted to pay taxes at the higher rate. That works out to one-twentieth of one percent. Think of it this way: In 2000, only 60 percent of the Massachusetts electorate voted to cut the income tax, but a decade later 99.95 percent of the population has decided to take advantage of the tax cut a lot of them claimed they didn’t want or need.
The moonbat motto is: Do as I say, not as I do. Consider the charitable deductions (or lack thereof) of the most sanctimonious liberal politicians: Obama, Biden, Kerry. They throw around quarters - their own, anyway - like they were manhole covers. But they would gladly give you the shirt off somebody else’s back.
In Massachusetts, these 931 volunteers had to come up with an additional $54,500, enough to pay Billy Bulger’s pension for just over three months. So the average volunteer moonbat who decided to pay the extra .55 percent this year had a 2009 income of about $12,000.
As pitiful as those numbers are, they’re better than they were at this time last year, when 1.831 million taxpayers had filed, and only 731 ponied up. But those 731 chipped in $70,232, which means last year’s moonbats had an average income of $19,000.
Of course these Birkenstock-clad carpetbaggers from New York have their excuses for not paying the higher taxes they’re so adamant about wanting to impose on the rest of us. After all, they do a lot of public service . . . sending those no-nonsense letters to the editor of the boring broadsheet they no longer pay to read, putting the blast on greedy Republicans. Plus nowadays they write their own blogs denouncing the troop buildup in Afghanistan and how high gasoline prices are bankrupting the country and it’s all Bush’s . . . er, never mind.
I forgot to ask Gov. Deval Patrick Thursday if he’s volunteering to pay more taxes this year, so I e-mailed the question to his office Friday. No response, which I guess means he stands with that 99.95 percent of his constituents.
Yes, he con.
In case anyone is wondering, the "Moonbats" piece is from the Boston Herald, a "right wing rag" to use Hag's parlance.
I expect everyone to pay the lowest amount of taxes allowable under the law. That is human nature and that is our role as taxpayers.
It is the state's role to have the most efficient tax system possible to raise the the revenue needed to run the state, the scope of which is determined by the people through their elected representatives.
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