This a repeat story every tax season here in Massachusetts, but I don’t know if I’ve covered it before.
You know how it works here in Massachusetts. If you want to put your money where your liberal mouth is, all you have to do is check Box 22 on the state income tax form and then you can pay at the old, higher 5.85 percent rate….According to the DOR, as of yesterday 2.78 million Massachusetts residents had filed 2011 tax returns, and exactly 773 opted to pay at the higher rate. Altogether the 773 paid an extra $60,181, which means their average income was approximately $15,000.
Another radio personality made a great analogy: Democrats treat taxes like teenage boys treat sex. They will do ANYTHING to do it, and its most of what they think about.
This Box 22 issue says a universal truth: Nobody wants to give more than they have to, especially when it comes to taxes that are mandated from the barrel of a gun. Still its one thing to try and shirk the tax system and keep as much of your money to spend as you see fit, bet that personal gain, saving, or charities.
The irony comes to those who want us all to pay more taxes, but won’t lead by example, even when when its made as painfully easy as checking a single box here in Massachusetts. Further it seems that all those leftist supporters of the “Buffet Rule” where they want “The Rich” to pay more in taxes, it seems the only people who pay more are the lower middle class, as a $15,000 annual income is NOT a lot of money, when you factor in that some of these people HAD to have filed jointly with a spouse, and the high class of living, “Poor” isn’t an outlandish moniker.
Meanwhile all these wealthy leftists don’t pay, further we have stories like John Kerry cheating tax laws for his expensive imported yacht (he claims to have paid when he was caught, but I don’t know if I buy his story). Buffet himself is fighting a massive back-tax bill, you wonder if he’d pay more taxes than his secretary if he paid his bill in full like us “Regular People”.
Of course we all know the stories of leftist tax-cheats, many in the Obama Cabinet, many more in the Federal Legislature.
I think this all falls in line with Obama’s Cigarette ban, Barry is a smoker. That’s fine, he’s a big boy, and he has a tough job. Let him smoke, let him drink. Hell let him fire up a joint. Only he banned cigarettes here in America….not the brands he smokes, of course.
I think we can all read the writing on the wall, the wealthy Limousine Liberals want US to pay higher taxes…they’ll continue to exploit tax shelters, or outright cheat and steal.
Classy, huh?
