Deval Patrick shows MA taxpayers which jobs truly matter.

In the face of climbing unemployment the original hope and change, governor Deval Patrick appointed his friend to a position that has been vacant for YEARS. In the Boston Herald story, Marian Walsh was selected to be director of the state’s Health and Educational Facilities Authority and guess how many years that post has been unfilled? Three? Six? Try, twelve bloody years. Salary? $175,000!

Meanwhile we are facing down the barrel of the tax cannon, a potential increase on gas that would propel Massachusetts to the top of the heap in gas taxes making us number one. At least we are at the best at something – the reaming of taxpayers. This is on top of the already existing proposed taxes on alcohol, sodas, candy, car taxes (RMV fees) and probably a litany of other small revenue boosters that I am not aware of.

As the article points out correctly, Patrick has the audacity to get up in front of us and ask for sacrifices? I don’t understand what planet these people live on. Hypocrisy does not begin to accurately describe what these politicians are doing, only words like stupidity, idiocy, lunacy, thievery and mental relapse come close.

I probably should not be that upset given that 70% of my fellow taxpayers willingly voted to continue handing over their income tax to this mob of raving lunatics. Not to harp on the matter any longer, but the irony is still ringing in my years, after all, we were warned that voting to repeal the income tax would result in higher taxes. I bet the detractors would claim it would have been worse, but really? Would it really have been worse? Can you see them filling a 12 year vacant spot with that kind of salary if they were forced to make drastic cuts. Corruption will always be a part of the political arena, but if we continue giving them means to feed the corruption then we are doing ourselves a gigantic disservice.

What Devolved Patrick just did is inexcusable and unjustifiable. If I were a governor of this state, my focus would be on eliminating jobs in government given that unemployment shot up to 8%, NOT creating new jobs.

Taxachusetts, here we come (in our carpool)

A throwback to the 1970s, our own original hope-n-change governor has proposed his most daring tax hike yet. A 19 cent gas tax increase to pay for the struggling Mass. Transit/MBTA department which will be on top of the proposed candy, soda, alcohol tax increases. SUVs will also be subjected to higher fees and a crackdown to ensure that MA residents avoid breaking the law and buying goods in tax free New Hampshire.

How is that liberals still have not learned, that taxing people when they are hurting from a recession, depleted 401Ks, plummeting house values and rising unemployment is the surest way to exacerbate the situation? They did it under FDR, they did it in the 1970s, they did it in Japan and now they are doing it again? Even Bill Clinton had the bloody sense to implement the highest middle class tax increase during a recovery! (granted the democrats got the boot shortly after, but the difference is worth mentioning).

So not only has Deval and his cronies scared MA residents stiff into not voting for Question 1 (elimination of the state income tax) they are now levying taxes left and right. If this gas tax goes through and I am sure it will, our state will have the highest gas taxes in the nation. Of course to the original hope-n-change, this amounts to less than a cup of coffee per week. What a self righteous prick, easy for him to say when he is pimping around on a brand new Cadillac all expenses paid. Worse yet, the fees on the SUVs and other big cars is precisely what the American car companies do NOT need right now, apparently it is the only vehicle they can actually sell. I am personally stunned at this level of audacity and we are well on our way to Taxachusetts, assuming we have enough money to get there.