Massachusetts Senate Votes to Tax Taxes

  The Massachusetts senate voted today to increase the sales tax by 25% to 6.5%. But there is more to this story than just another tax increase, the legislature voted to extend the sales tax to alcohol.

  Alcohol had been exempted from the sales tax for a reason, there is already a separate tax on alcohol. With this vote a person buying alcohol in Massachusetts will pay the alcohol tax and then pay a sales tax on the price of alcohol which includes the alcohol tax. In other words they will be taxing you on a tax that you are already paying.

  There is also talk that Massachusetts is about to extend the sales tax to gas. Massachusetts residents already pay about 40 cents a gallon in taxes between federal and state taxes, this would add an additional 6.5% tax to the total price of gas including the 40 cents in taxes they already pay for a gallon of gas. They will be paying 2.6 cents in taxes on the 40 cents in taxes that they already pay for gas.

  Such is the state of affairs in the state where a revolution was born in the name of opposing oppressive taxes. Oh how the mighty have fallen.