MA Sales Tax Relief Act, Question 3

The Insider wrote:

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You don't have to quit your job. You have your girlfriend go down to Main Street to the Massachuesetts Social Service office and apply. She will state the father of her children left her and she has no way to support her kids by herself. The kids have her last name not his. She gives them a phony name for her boyfriend that left her so they will never be able to find him.
Meanwhile the real father is still working and lives with them. Welfare agents have never done any home visits or checks. The so called live boyfriend can never be DNA tested because it is his civil right.
They still have their self-esteem, their expenses are paid for and his paycheck pays for all those new large screen tv's in their apartment. The kids are in welfare funded daycare everyday so she still has plenty of free time.
The only thing they can never do is get married, buy a house and the kids can never have the last name of the real father.
I guess many people really don't know how the system is abused.

The Insider wrote:

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I am sorry you don't get out much or maybe you are on welfare too. Welfare doesn't buy the Escalade the so called live in boyfriend (father) buys the Escalade because welfare takes care of the other expenses. Maybe you should become a cashier at DeMoulas and see first hand the items purchased with that blue card.
Obviously drug money supplements welfare. I guess you are not educated enough to realize the point I am making is your tax dollars are being wasted to supplement the abusers of welfare DUMB DUMB !

Oh Really wrote:

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I'm smart enough to know that 'welfare' doesn't come from the SSA. SSI, SSDI, Title II, Title IV benefits come from SSA, but EBT cards don't. They come from DTA. And you have to had paid into the system to get SSA benefits (unless you're a child of a deceased parent who paid into the system). So the live in boyfriend selling drugs buys the escalade. Hate to burst your bubble but I work for an agency that works in partnership with DTA to fight fraud. No need for you to imply I'm a "welfare" recipient, other than inflating your own ego. Get over yourself.
Here's the link to the form, report these friends of yours who you listed as abusing the system. You know alot about their private affairs, so you must be a close aquiantence.
http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dta/c-dta-isfr...

Yeah man wrote:

<quoted text>You know way to much about how the system works. Just get a job dude.

taxed enough already wrote:

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This would be a problem? Attracting out of state shoppers because our tax is lower? Out our end of the state, we would have tons of New Yorkers coming here to shop, since their sales tax is 7 or 8% and they tax clothes and we don't. Advertise it in Eastern New York and they will flock here.
This would be a huge benefit to Western Mass retailers near the border. Plus, maybe people nearer to New Hampshire would stop going over the border to buy over there to avoid sales tax.

Property tax vs sales tax wrote:

Everyone saying how your fire department and police departments will get cut if you lower the sales tax are wrong. The state has already slashed in a major way the money given to towns and that is with a 6.25% tax. I would rather pay a slightly higher property tax with that money staying in my town and going for my services rather than pay the fat cats on the hill more money.

CitizenTopix wrote:

Massachusetts Sales Tax Relief Act, Question 3

The measure, if enacted by voters, would reduce the state sales tax rate from 6.25 to 3 percent.

A "YES" vote would reduce the state sales and use tax rates to 3 percent.

A "NO" vote would make no change in the state sales and use tax rates.

How will you vote on November 2nd?

Property tax vs sales tax wrote:

Everyone saying how your fire department and police departments will get cut if you lower the sales tax are wrong. The state has already slashed in a major way the money given to towns and that is with a 6.25% tax. I would rather pay a slightly higher property tax with that money staying in my town and going for my services rather than pay the fat cats on the hill more money.

sher wrote:

Look at the big picture. Vote for the 3% tax. Then see a new tax pop up. Maybe your land tax will go up or alcohol or tobacco or water or utilities etc. The people that will bebefit most from the decrease will be those coming from abutting states whose sales tax is higher. Mark my words. Lived in New Hampshire.

Whaaat wrote:

These people are crazy. We don't have enough money now, if this goes through the state will be bankrupt.

Oh Really wrote:

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Ah, Dude, I work. Another one with a reading comprehension problem. What is with the water in Fitchburg? Glad I drink bottled water.

The Worlds Biggest Lie wrote:

Cigarettes are cheap in NC. Tee hee.

Funny wrote:

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True, but then you're stuck living in North Carolina. Don't the slack-jawed yokels scare you? Lots of sibling/sibling marriages down there.