What part of "IT'S A NEW TAX!" don't Democrats understand?

In an article Debate around meals tax heats up in yesterday's Boston Globe, Eric Moskowitz reports how many towns have seen a greater windfall than expected, that people did not stop eating out and have paid the tax, but strangely many of us still oppose this tax. They just don't get it.

The only reason this tax has not had the expected effect of depressing business at restaurants is that many of us that oppose this idiotic NEW TAX decided not to hang our local business owners out to dry. I contemplated going over the border into Melrose to eat, or up the road to Stoneham, but I am friendly with the owners of my favorite Medford eateries, and could not bring myself to abandon them. This does not make it OK for pro-tax Democrats to nickel and dime me(literally, in the "adding 15 cents to every $20 restaurant tab" used by the author) with NEW TAXES during a Democrat created and fueld recession.

Taxes are meant to fund the necessary services of government, and the supporters of the NEW TAX dutifully employ the usual stock Democrat talking point to thus justify it; “Unfortunately, I think some of the chamber of commerce organizations, the business organizations, see this as a threat when it’s not a threat,’’ Geoffery Beckwith, executive with the pro-tax Massachusetts Municipal Association said. “The greater threat is to have municipal services such as police, fire protection, or schools erode more because of a lack of revenue."

Well, a few things here. First of all, any NEW TAX is a threat from our current state(and now City) government. The threat is the NEW TAX will increase over time, and become a permanent NEW TAX as is the norm in ths corrupt Commonwealth. Second, why is it that policemen, firemen, and teachers (who thanks to the MTA are more secure in their jobs than toll takers) are always threatened when tax money dries up? Why are Mayor McGlynn and Deval Patrick's personal cars and staff members safely insulated from any economic shortfalls, but first responders and teachers are permanently endangered(I'll answer that one for you, that is how pro-tax folks - commonly called "Democrats" - generate sympathy for unconstitutional NEW TAXES)? And third, does anyone really think that Patrick at the state level and McGlynn locally will not still come up with a budget shortfall, no matter how much new revenue is dumped into the public sector sink-hole?

"It's .15 on a $20 tab." "It's a new cup of coffee." "It's not a threat."

It's a NEW TAX, and in the age of aggressively growing, out of control, unaccountable state and local government, every NEW TAX is a threat. Expect the 7% tax on meals to become the law of the land for perpetuity from here on out, and even a .75% "correction" to the 6.25% sales tax in the future to make 7% the rate for all sales in Massachusetts, meals or otherwise. And then expect Mayor McGlynn to have our city engage in more unsafe borrowing schemes, and Deval Patrick to beg money from the state to pay for normal operating costs again next year anyways. Because tax-and-spend Democrats can never have enough money, they are always one new electronic toll, one casino scheme, or one ".15 on a $20 tab" tax away from being back in the black, but in reality, any new funds generated will be siphoned away to welfare programs and to line the pockets of Massachusetts politicians.

Nick McNulty
Medford GOP