Tax Day Tea Party

Got this email forwarded to me today. I'll remind everyone when it gets closer to the 15th.

You can visit their website here.

Please Join us at a peaceful rally on Wednesday, April 15th from 4 to 6 PM.

The time for "typing and griping" has ended. It is time for each of us to take two hours of our time and make this rally as large as we can.

All YOU have to do is make your sign (please no vulgarities) and show up at Park Square.

Let's send a message that the taxpayers in Berkshire County support the national effort to stop our Washington politicians -- NOW.

Thanks

PS: this is the first time I will have demonstrated in my life! You can do it too. It doesn't matter which political party you support. If you pay taxes and want to stop the madness in Washington, you need to be there......

Please forward this to all your email contacts in Western Massachusetts and let's get a huge crowd to send a message to Boston & Washington on tax day 2009.

Obama breaks another promise

I wouldn't expect anything less from Obama. I'm surprised people actually believed him when he told us he wouldn't raise taxes on anyone earning under $250,000/year. This is exactly what liberals do. They say one thing and govern another way. But you'll never hear this from the main stream media. They are too concerned with protecting their Messiah rather than reporting the news.

One of President Barack Obama's campaign pledges on taxes went up in puffs of smoke Wednesday.

The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama's promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000.

This is one tax that disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich.

To be sure, Obama's tax promises in last year's campaign were most often made in the context of income taxes. Not always.

"I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

He repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."

Now in office, Obama, who stopped smoking but has admitted he slips now and then, signed a law raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, to $1.01. Other tobacco products saw similarly steep increases.

Instead of raising revenue like I'm sure he thinks this will do. This will actually decrease revenue to the government. People will find ways to get around paying the extra taxes by either buying them illegally or just stopping to smoke altogether.

Democrats hate out sourcing

Yet they are the main cause for corporations leaving the United States for more tax friendly countries. Only makes common sense, why would corporations want to pay more taxes and make less profits? Which is why I've been saying the best way to get out of the recession is to cut taxes and promote growth than that raising taxes and making it harder to grow the economy.

The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland are an unlikely setting for an oil boom.

Yet a wave of energy companies has in the last few months announced plans to move to Switzerland -- mainly for its appeal as a low-tax corporate domicile that looks relatively likely to stay out of reach of Barack Obama's tax-seeking administration.

In a country with scant crude oil production of its own, the virtual energy boom has changed the canton or state of Zug, about 30 minutes' drive from Zurich, beyond all recognition. Its economy was based on farming until it slashed tax rates to attract commerce after World War Two.

This is what happens when you threaten to raise taxes...

Now Deval is "flexible" on the gas tax hike

How about instead of taxing us constituents and burdening the already bad economy, how about Deval lowers the gas tax to boost the economy. I guess that would make too much sense for a liberal Democrat like Deval.

Governor Deval Patrick allowed for some flexibility on his gas tax increase proposal yesterday as lawmakers began cautioning that 19 cents could be too high for their constituents.

Patrick told reporters he would be open to a smaller increase, but declined to specify a number, according to the Associated Press. When he unveiled the plan last week, he said he expected legislators to offer alternatives, but did not say how much he would be willing to yield.

He told reporters yesterday that a 4-cent increase would be enough to avert the set of toll hikes approved Tuesday but would not be enough to address all of the state's transportation problems. He also repeated his vow to veto any bill that does not make the state's transportation system more efficient.

What a good politician Deval is, start off at 29 cents. Get a backlash. Then go to 19 cents. Get another backlash. Now say we might just do a 4 cent increase. Maybe if we backlash again we can send him a message. NO NEW TAXES!