We have to provide all the freeloaders with food stamps, free health care, allowances,
free phones, taxi rides, etc. We have to raise taxes on the workers so that these people can continue to live in the way that they have been accustomed, that's why.

Carl, don't forget the illegal's children getting free college tuition, when we rush them through to citizenship, they are sure to vote for the democrats who gave them the free s---!

As recently as a couple years ago, 30 states had higher taxes than Massachusetts. "Taxachusetts" doesn't exist anymore.

Patrick's proposal may be too large, but we need to do something meaningful to raise the revenue necessary to deal with our transportation and infrastructure problems. We are underfunding our infrastructure to the tune of about a billion a year, just to keep up our current level of service. This is going to eventually catch up to us and either cost a heckuva lot more or force us to reduce the quality of our roads, bridges and public transportation, costing us tons of jobs. Likely, it will be all of the above... unless we act now.

That fact about how many states pay higher taxes than us came from the Mass Budget and Policy Center. http://www.massbudget.org/report_window.php?loc=Facts07152010.html

The Mass Budget and Policy Center is a liberal think tank, and quite frankly, their information and statistical analysis will always serve to back those positions up, including Deval Patrick's proposals. Regardless of that, there is merit in the idea that Massachusetts has become a friendlier state to live in--as to tax burden-- but a bigger concern than this is that the liabilities that this state faces on a per capita basis are extremely high (and unfortunately severely unfunded) and the state also is extremely inefficient on a per capita basis as well in terms of cost of government per citizen. There was no discussion of either of these concerns by Governor Patrick in his "proposal," and until he addresses these issues, I cannot see his proposal as being serious in any way, shape or form.

We were all fooled when the democrats in Mass. Told us that the lottery money would be used for roads and bridges. Patrick is just doing the same thing here! Why are we shocked by another democratic lie?
He only wants to take a dollar and a quarter per hundred that we earn! Add that with the two dollars per hundred that Obama and his democratic friends crushed us with on January 1, and it's only three and a quarter per hundred less in our pay checks, and the new Obama care taxes haven't hit us yet.
Keep voting for Democrats and you'll have nothing left. But not to worry, your lazy ass neighbor will have more then he needs, payed for by you!
Welcome to socialism!

He never received over 50% thanks to the three way elections he was treated to. Cahill acted as straw and then got punished. Got to love Mass Dems - backstabbing jerks.

Ya, we can ask for a refund and will get it if we vote for a republican governor and stop voting for democrates! Have we learned nothing from the damage they create on people that work and pay taxes?
But they care about the little people by giving them free handouts to keep them dependent on the government so they continue to vote democrat to keep them down permanently with no hope and freedom and independence!
It's also importent to keep racism alive and well by having quotas for people of color so that white people can have created anger toward these people created by the Democratic Party!
It's all about the power!
If they really cared about the less fortunite, they would create an environment to provide jobs for everyone so that they can have the freedom of independence.
It's all about the votes to stay in power regardless of the damage they do to the class of people they fool.

the democrats are the personification of evil , they are the anti christ! and i'm not even religious lol