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letters | AMAZON TO COLLECT MASS. SALES TAX

Bay State does what it’s known for

RE “Amazon to charge Mass. sales tax: Deal will lift state’s coffers, pinch its online consumers” (Page A1, Dec. 12): Let me commend Governor Patrick for preserving the name of our state. The name “Taxachusetts” has been reaffirmed.

Dick MacDonald

Comments

According to most statical evidence, Massahusetts isn't even in the Top Ten of most taxed states. "Taxachusetts" is just more whining about avoiding the responsibility of our common and shared civic duty.  Take a look at the statistics for those states with the lowest tax rates, and the wretched living conditions in those benighted backwaters.