Regarding Governor Patrick’s plans to increase the cost of living for many Massachusetts residents, I have to wonder whether he has thought of other alternatives — for example, cutting expenditures as opposed to raising taxes.
While raising our taxes seems like the easiest, quickest fix, perhaps Patrick might consider cutting the waste in his own administration. The culling of the unqualified highway safety administrator was a good start. How many other dead-weight patronage hires are still employed by the state?
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Well said.
Surprised the globe let this one by the censors.... Honestly, they published a letter where a woman didn't want "taxes" to be called a burden!
Hold the phone! The teachers I know are buying their school supplies - there is nothing else to trim.
All the money is already going to bloated salary's and undeserved pensions and Cadillac healthcare plans that non-thuggers have to pay for.
With the money the district gives them or the built in tax break for those supplies? Or the free supplies at Staples and Office Max that are limitless to teachers? My children have never gotten a school supply from a teacher...I think you need to stop drinking the Kool Aid...my underpaid teacher friend is under 40 and makes about $70k with summers off and tons of vacaton...
Let's fix the state's crumbling ethics, integrity, and efficiencies first. Have a system in place where 6 guys aren't leaning on shovels, watching a 7th, as a reward for delivered votes. And where perfectly good roads and bridges are not declared crumbling to give those guys a place to lean their shovels. Or where we won't spend years endangered and repairing their shoddy work. The areas where money leaks, from patronage jobs, to undeserved and mispent public assistance, unrealistic and unsustainable benefits (retiring before 50, after 25 years of 'work', then drawing a pension for 35+ years), are some of the main reaons we have let things crumble. The money was there, but only a fraction was translated into the intended projects, the rest was ultimately transformed into votes for corrupt politicians. It will repeat without fixes to the system that processes our tax money.
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You think the governor actually wants to do the work required to do that? He has campaigning to do...it never ends...
It all goes back to the ballot box: why do we keep electing these people?