Roll call from House sales tax vote

Looks like we vote 108 No’s and 51 Yeas’ for incumbents next election! You increase the tax bozo's are now going to see the wrath of the voters. 60% of us said NO! to the Tax hike. Just WHO do you people represent? Certainly not the constituents!

WOW...

Big political victory for the speaker.... All you did is line up the pigs at the trough, this took no courage. Instead you are trying to shove one big one down our throats to give yourselves cover from having to bring seperate proposals to the table. You are gutless..

Thankyou McMurtry from Dedham for voting NAY!!!

Yeah, then they will complain about people crossing state lines or using the internet to make their purchases. Business 101 - don't charge more than the market can bear. Better off finding a crew who can remove 12 trees and a stretch of sidewalk for less than $265,000.00 dollars - there are a lot of people out there looking for work who I bet would get it done for much, much less. Oh! did someone say union?

This is absolutely frustrating and one more reason for the middle class, taxpaying citizen to consider relocation to another part of the country. Our elected officials don't seem to understand, or they choose to ignore, the fact that tax revenue is down because we taxpayers have less money. They need to do the same with the state budget as I have had to do repeatedly with my personal budget: CUT BACK SPENDING. They also need to understand that we are onto their scare tactics; there are still plenty of special interest, efficiency improvement and wasteful line items in the budget to be cut before they touch the real services, beneficial to all citizens.

Its a very small price if it will help to balance the budget. Overall it is fair because evryone shares the load. Not like the turnpike tas where western ma pays for boston residents

Most long-time Massachusetts residents know that the state house is full of useless corrupt people who run around and waste their time. We almost treat it as a sideshow comedy with all their stupidity.

But there was a long-standing unwritten rule that their stupidity should stay out of the way of the normal Massachusetts residents. We know that they threw away 4% of the 5% sales tax, but it was a small enough price to pay for living around our relatives, grandparents, etc.

No one without family ties is willing to stay in this stupidly run state any longer, and raising this tax is one more nail in the coffin of our economy.

"Its a very small price if it will help to balance the budget. Overall it is fair because evryone shares the load." - Bette

This is what happens when a "budget" needs balanced. Just tax us more. It's this attitude of letting every tiny little tax hike pass without a fight that finds us donating all of our money to a group of people that show very little evidence of knowing how to properly spend our money (as displayed by not balancing their budget). It's very easy to say that times are hard. That doesn't give politicians free reign and everyone should take note of this when elections come up next.

This is what you get when you have single party rule. I see you all here complaining yet every election you run to the polls and fill in the D box. And now we have the same situation at the national level - a veto-proof majority.
Single party rule makes for bad government - no checks and balances. You reap what you sow.

Interesting that the only people who can't adjust to "tough times are the pols.
By the way, the sales tax increase is not 1% as reported in the media. 5% to 6% is 20%. Just what this state is famous for; more taxes.