Massachusetts 19 Cent Gas Tax Increase is Not Enough, How About 25 Cents?
Is it any wonder why Governor Patrick’s approval rating has fallen 40 points since January? He can’t control, or doesn’t want to control, his legislature.
After he proposed an astounding 19 cent gas tax increase, that is 19 cents all at once, not phased in over a course of time, the legislature in that state, not to be outdone, is now proposing an even higher gas tax increase: 25 cents.
In hard economic times there is nothing quite like making it harder for your constituents to go to work is there? If this passes it will bring the total gas tax paid in Massachusetts to 47.5 cents a gallon. By far the highest in the nation.
Where is the call for investigations into windfall profits? This is obscene, if this were the oil companies there would be political hell to pay, but it isn’t, it is government and they have the right to make obscene profits dammit!
But what do the people who propose and support this idea care? They make six figure salaries plus bonuses and THEY ARE REIMBURSED FOR THEIR GAS USAGE!
These people are nothing but swine feeding at the taxpayers trough, they should be in jail not in power.
Why again did Massachusetts residents not vote to rescind the income tax last year?
America's Watchtower 
With all the talk about Obama’s tax raising rampage, what gets left out is the states are hitting us at the same time. Take that tobacco tax. Obama’s goes into effect next month. You’re getting hit simultaneously with a state tax for that same tobacco. They’ll get away with it too. Booze and butts. Those are devil taxes. Who’s going to fight that?
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That is a good point, people forget that it isn’t only federal taxes that are going up, the state taxes are going up also. On top of Obama’s tobacco tax, New Hampshire’s tobacco tax is about to go up. We get it coming and going.
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Well that makes me even more glad I just bought a car that gets 35 mpg. Now I just have to quit smoking and maybe we can continue to eat!
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to add to it, the government can only come up with solutions by giving us more problems, and they never repent their actions after their goals have been met. for example i highly doubt the 6.25 percent state tax is going to disappear ever. seriously, if we were to do a simple calculation, that gas tax increase for example, 1.5 cent increase is about 40 million a year. now, take that and multiply it by ten (15 cents more) is 400,000 million. what the hell does our government need that much money for??? thats just pennies, never mind the state sales tax. they should seriously be spending the money on something that is going to benefit EVERYONE (say, lower property tax and make home buying feasible again), not just western mass, AKA their wallets.
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