Our neighbor (MA) potentially raising their sales tax to 7%

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Wasn't him then

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Originally Posted by GraniteStater

Oh good grief. I would call that political extrapolation. I don't really care how much credit you give Bush. He made plenty of mistakes ranging from: military-industrial complex overspending, letting Cheney make all of the foreign policy decisions, being a turncoat on illegal immigration, axing many of our environmental laws in favor of big corporations and polluters, etc, etc.
The current batch of Democrats are no better than the prior eight failed years under the Bush administration. The two party system is gradually tearing this country apart with both parties engaging in rampant overspending, and catering to overall divisiveness.

Yes, that is extrapolation based on a moron (I mean, a different moron, far more Carter-like than LBJ-like) getting elected and having to make his way with a R-controlled congress.

I was not giving Bush much credit at all, unless you consider getting into two wars with no win strategy no end game strategy is giving him credit.

What I'm saying is that W, aka Rumsfeld since he was running the wait-and-see/what, me worry? war, being replaced by a far leftist who believes in the foreign policy tooth fairy might have gotten the country back to common sense faster than an arrogant, clueless, and complacent Bush/Rumsfeld who IMO committed crimes against the military by their utter incompetence and lack of interest.
It wasn't until Republicans-who-looked-like-Democrats lost all of congress that W got a cattle prod in the correct orifice and woke up to some degree.

With Kerry in the WH, it is possible the congressional Rs might have moved in a more conservative direction. Might have.

But in the long run, I think Kerry winning in 2004 would have precluded the 2006 and 2008 election disasters, or mitigated them to some degree.
Which in turn might mean the nation/we citizens wouldn't be printing play money and in zillions of dollars of debt, with spending that makes drunken sailors look like the strictest of Puritans.

Which would have had absolutely no effect on MA raising their sales tax.
And I still think they should just go for 10% and get it over with. It will be there by 2015 anyway. Why wait? There's money to be spent!

Tax, spend, lie. Repeat cycle.