What Do You Get From TAXachusetts?

The Department of Motor Vehicles is raising it fee rate as of July 1st this year.  If you're thinking of selling that car and jumping on the MBTA hold that thought because the MBTA is considering raising its rates by 5% as of July 1st this year also.  "Budget gaps" is often the reason why these excessive tax and fee rate hikes putting strain on an already over strained Massachusetts community are cited.  When one looks into the tax levies on the individuals, families and businesses small and large you have to wonder where all the money is going and what the heck the Democrats on Beacon Hill are talking about?

Ronald Reagan once said, "To Republicans, everyday is the 4th of July.  To Democrats, everyday is April 15th."  To be fair, I will also quote JFK, who said, "The most important step we can take to prevent a recession is a tax cut."  Both Mr. Reagan and JFK did cut taxes and both actions resulted in more taxes being collected because when businesses, small and large, are freed from the growth restraint heavy tax system, they are able to hire more people and expand their businesses which allows for many subsequent businesses to do the same.  More people working, actually paying fewer taxes, by sheer volume, increases tax collection by big government.  In the case of Massachusetts, with more tax collection those monies should be going to pay down our 3rd highest in the 50 states debt rate.  However, they are not.  Taxes being collected now fund EBT card waste, fraud and abuse.  Bureacracies like the DCF being funded as they lose children of our state while imprisoning children of other states.  Roads, infrastructure, more firefighters, police or education?  No, taxes aren't going there at all.  Where does all of this money go?  Nearly 9,000 state employees make over $100,000 per year.  Think of that the next time your car is in the shop after hitting a pot hole. 

Nobody wants to hear it.  Especially in a bad economy with folks either losing their health insurance, jobs, or their doctors over Obamacare.  However, here is a partial list of state taxes being levied on individuals, families and businesses:

Alcohol Tax (which also has an added excise tax making it a double tax so you can't even drink your tax problems away.)

Gas Tax which was tied to the inflation rate therefore the legislators on Beacon Hill NEVER have to vote your gas tax rate up or down again.  It is literally taxation without representation.  They put no ceiling on how high the gas tax can rise but they did put a floor it couldn't go below.  Insult to injury was when a group of concerned citizened panned out across the Commonwealth and collected the necessary amount of signatures to put a ballot question on the November 4th vote to sever the tie, not eliminate the tax, but sever the tie to inflation so legislators are held accountable and transparent caused those same legislators to have the shameless audacity to put a plan into action that will possibly force the collection of another 12,000 signatures to keep it on the ballot after having collected over 100,000 in the first place.  Shame on you Democrats living large as the rest of us suffer one party rule of TAXachusetts.

Other taxes include, cigarette tax, boat/recreational vehicle tax, excise tax, sales tax, income tax, convention tax, meals tax, local tax, property tax and the list of fees for licenses for various activities is also endless.  We, the tax payers of Massachusetts, have had ENOUGH!!!!  We are getting less bang for our buck.  Businesses, people and jobs are moving out of the Bay State.  We are losing seats in the House of Representative in Washington DC.  It is time we end one party rule on Beacon Hill and bring in the kinds of tax cutting and regulation reform that will provide relief to individuals. families and businesses, especially small businesses which are the back bone of our economy, to ease the burden of suffering in a down economy. 

Sadly, the answer to the question of the title of this blog is all you get from TAXachusetts is more taxes.