Massachusetts Liberals choose to pay fewer taxes

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

There are two income tax rates in Mass. 5.85 percent and 5.3 percent. You can check the current 5.3 or or the old 5.85 in you want to. I'm a former Mass. resident and have always chose the lower rate. You will also note that Mass. is a very liberal state that will elect Barney Frank and Ted Kennedy without question.

Liberals’ voluntary taxes amount to zilch for state

By Howie Carr

Moonbats of Massachusetts, what about the children?

It is with deep regret that I must report to you that in this new tax season more than 99.99 percent of the Beautiful People in Massachusetts are again refusing to do the right thing on their income tax returns and voluntarily pay at the old, higher rate.

All year long, the Hope and Change crowd sanctimoniously lectures those of us who work for a living about how mean-spirited we are because we begrudge paying our “fair share” to help the layabouts who have “fallen through the cracks.”

But strangely, every year, when all they need to do is have the accountant check off a single box on their income-tax forms to solve the problems created by the Cheney presidency, the Yes-We-Can types adamantly refuse to part with a few extra bucks.

As you know, a few years back, as a gag, the Legislature passed a bill allowing the state’s pony-tailed, trust-funded liberals to voluntarily pay at the old 5.85 percent income tax rate, rather than at the reduced 5.3 percent rate.

Considering that in 2000, 40 percent of the electorate voted against cutting the state income tax, you might have expected hundreds of thousands of the blow-in drifters now squatting in Cambridge and Brookline and Amherst to voluntarily ante up.

But no. The state, it appears, is teeming with Leona Helmsleys. Taxes are for the little people, not the Beautiful People.

Here are the latest DOR numbers. As of yesterday, 640,783 individual taxpayers had filed their 2008 returns. Of those 640,783, exactly 293 opted to pay at the higher 5.85 percent rate.

Back me up on the math here. If 640,000 is the number, then 6,400 would be 1 percent, and 640 would be one-tenth of 1 percent. And 293 is less than one half of one tenth of 1 percent. So the percentage so far this year is one-twentieth of 1 percent.

Moonbats, I beseech you! Send in some more of the dough from Pater’s trust fund. Otherwise, how can we offer alms to the neediest among us, like Deval Patrick’s unemployed neighbor with the new made-up $120,000-a-year state job, and the Bulger hack who’s been collecting for 15 years and now was just handed a brand new $150,000 made-up state job?

Actually, the state claims the Beautiful People are twice as likely to check the higher-rate box this year, but two times zero is still zero. Even sadder is how much the commonwealth has collected from these 293 individuals - exactly $24,098.

Again, these are rough calculations, but I think that works out to just under $90 per filer. If $90 is .55 percent of your taxable income, you made about $18,000 in 2008.

That’s not a lot of taxable income. That’s why they all invest in municipal bonds - no taxes.

Theories abound as to why Beautiful People are so damn cheap, whether it’s evading taxes (see Geithner, Rangel, Daschle and now maybe Emanuel) or giving next to nothing to charity (see Biden, Kerry, et al.). Perhaps - make that probably - they’re just a bunch of phonies and hypocrites.

See, when you attend a candlelight vigil, everyone in your social circle can see how righteous you are. Ditto, putting a bumper sticker on the back of your Prius that says, “Vote Yes on the Override for the New $200 Million High School.” But no one in your own exalted bow-tied social class ever sees your tax returns, so why bother?

When it comes to their own money, moonbats toss around quarters like manhole covers. They wouldn’t pay a nickel to see an earthquake - that’s why the Globe is losing a million dollars a week. Their former readers are all liberals, which is to say, misers.

But what about the children, moonbats?

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnist...ticleid=1152896

[Niels Bohr 72]

I'm not surprise that MA is a highly liberal state since it has the highest number of colleges centralized in one area. Not only that, many great new discovery in Stem Cell Research, Nanotechnology pioneeered in MA. This is because of the regulation within these areas.

We're only capable as we limit ourselves to be.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I'm not surprise that MA is a highly liberal state since it has the highest number of colleges centralized in one area. Not only that, many great new discovery in Stem Cell Research, Nanotechnology pioneeered in MA. This is because of the regulation within these areas.

We're only capable as we limit ourselves to be.

But why don't those liberals choose the higher rate? Selfish hippies.

[Ban Hammer 13,643]

I'm not surprise that MA is a highly liberal state since it has the highest number of colleges centralized in one area. Not only that, many great new discovery in Stem Cell Research, Nanotechnology pioneeered in MA. This is because of the regulation within these areas.

We're only capable as we limit ourselves to be.

But why don't those liberals choose the higher rate? Selfish hippies.

that's because they want someone else to pay for it. so much for putting their money where their mouth is.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Eh, it is known as Taxachussets--enough said!

[NickD 203]

293/640783 * 100 = 0.04572530794%

You are lucky to have Ted Kennedy as your senator, directing a lot of federal bucks back to your state. But his time is running short. The Bush's directed a lot of money back to Texas as Reagan did for California. But when the first Bush was elected, hundreds of thousands with government contractor jobs were lost in California. When the second Bush came in, two strikes against WI since we didn't vote for him, the other was junior democratic representation in Washington. Money was leaving our state by the train load with hardly a dime coming back, so our taxes skyrocketed.

Who says we get equal representation?

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Eh, it is known as Taxachussets--enough said!

True. But not the point.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

And you quote Howie Carr. Yea, he's as credible source. LMFAO.

[panamania79 2]

Eh, it is known as Taxachussets--enough said!

Massachusetts IS TAXachusetts and RI is getting just as bad !

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I'm not surprise that MA is a highly liberal state since it has the highest number of colleges centralized in one area. Not only that, many great new discovery in Stem Cell Research, Nanotechnology pioneeered in MA. This is because of the regulation within these areas.

We're only capable as we limit ourselves to be.

But why don't those liberals choose the higher rate? Selfish hippies.

that's because they want someone else to pay for it. so much for putting their money where their mouth is.

I chose the hiogher rate and I also voted against eliminating the state income tax. The majority won, the stete income tax stays.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Believe it or not whether MA residents neglect to pay a higher tax bracket is that MA is already heavily taxed.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

And you quote Howie Carr. Yea, he's as credible source. LMFAO.

ummm... duh..... he wrote the column.

Do you have an actual comment on why liberals are so selfish and cheap?

[Scott & Lai 12]

[spookyturtle 9,466]

And you quote Howie Carr. Yea, he's as credible source. LMFAO.

ummm... duh..... he wrote the column.

Do you have an actual comment on why liberals are so selfish and cheap?

No shi t ####### Tracey, who gave you the clue. Like I said, quoting Howie Carr as a credible source is a joke. He's a joke. Like some of the people here.