Or should I say “taxpayers?” Check out this overlooked fact from the Boston Globe-Democrat’s story on Patrick administration plans to expand the government-run convention center:
But while trumpeting the need for a larger facility to win bigger convention shows, state officials were not able to say how they would pay for an expansion that could top $1 billion. One official acknowledged authorities will have to reexamine the existing package of travel and tourism-related taxes and fees, which pay for the current facility's debt, to see if they need to be increased. [emphasis added]
Did you see that? Massachusetts is rolling out another BILLION DOLLARS in spending on a government boondoggle, and it’s greeted with a yawn. It doesn’t even make the headline. Didn’t I hear something about a budget crisis and government cuts?
And don’t buy the “we’ll get the tourists to pay” smokescreen. We all pay meals taxes, and besides, every dollar MA collects in taxes and spends on this union-friendly construction project could have gone to fixing a road or paying a cop.
We’re broke, we just raised taxes $1 billion, the MA version of ObamaCare is jacking our insurance premiums by up to 40 percent this year—and Patrick wants to spend $1 billion.
How do you explain to people who just don’t get it that the problem is they just don’t get it?
UPDATE: Patrick paying you tax-dollar millions for empty parking spaces, too!
At the ballot box.
When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”… Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate.
