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- From: mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman)
- Newsgroups: ne.politics
- Subject: Taxes (was Re: Butt-F***ed in Massachussetts)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.142523.19062@mips2.ma30.bull.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:25:23 GMT
- References: <BxzHz8.HMq@world.std.com>
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- Reply-To: mgelman@cyclades.ma30.bull.com (Michael A. Gelman)
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- Organization: Bull HN Info Sys, Billerica MA
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- In article <BxzHz8.HMq@world.std.com>, rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker) writes:
- |> The Great and General Court of the Commenwealth of Massachussetts has done
- |> it again. They (with their veto-proof Democratic majority) are repaying
- |> all the effort of those sterling citizens who live off the blood of
- |> Massachussetts taxpayers by pushing through a 13% raise in wages. When was
- |> the last time you received a 13% raise in wages comrades?
-
- I seem to recall hearing that it has been several years since the last
- one (I'm somewhat new to MA, so I don't know). Is that correct?
-
- |> And that is not all. Jim Broudie the God-Father of the Broudie bunch has
- |> rammed through a proposal to go to the graduated income tax.
-
- As I recall from my pay stub, I'm paying a state tax aready. Can
- someone elaborate how this proposal will change the tax burden?
-
- --Mike Gelman
-
- (I'll let someone else deal with the "morality of taxes and welfare"
- issues. I suspect that to be a discussion swamp.)
-
- --
- Michael Gelman -- M.Gelman@ma30.bull.com
- Bull HN Info Systems -- Advanced Engineering Program
- (Any similarity between my opinions and those of Bull, living or dead, are
- entirely coincidental.)
-