An article in today’s Boston Globe gleefully considers the possiblity that with Amazon moving an office into Cambridge Massachusetts, the state will now be able to force Amazon to collect a 6.25 percent sales tax on all of its’ customers.

It’s not enough that the move will bring 150 additional jobs in the area, bring people into the city, pay significant real estate taxes and help support local retailers.  Nope.  The best part, as far as the Globes’ concerned, is the ability to leech some more money off of an already over-taxed population.

The key quote in the article is:

“This is major revenue for states,’’ said Neal Osten, director of the Washington office of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Without a government plan to tax those sales, he said, “that loss will continue to grow, and as more people feel comfortable not paying sales taxes online, they also see it as a right not to pay online sales tax.’

How dare citizens think they have a right to keep their own money!  I guess it’s OK though for the Government to see it as a right to confiscate the earning of citizens and use it to expand an out of control and intrusive Government.

For the last thirty years or so, Governments’ main purpose has become taking money from the productive and redistributing it to an ever growing leech class.  In doing so, they also make …

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For over thirty years, I’ve been voting in Massachusetts.  In all that time, I think that maybe two candidates that I have voted for have actually been elected to office.  It’s been a frustrating thirty years, but today may have made it all worth it.

I didn’t have a whole lot of hope for Scott Brown being successful in this election.  My wife had been talking about him for some time and was pretty impressed by him.  Feeling like Charlie Brown with Lucy holding the football, I refused to get my hopes up, fearing that once again my heart would be torn out. 

I was wrong.

Brown was the right person in the right place at the right time.  People have been frustrated with the arogance of the Democrats.  The taxpayers (as opposed to the leaches) have let them know that we did not want the Democrats vision of health care.  We warned them.  We showed up at teapartys.  We wrote letters and e-mails but we were ignored and looked down upon.

The arrogance of Obama is astonishing.  The man has accomplished little in his life yet he still believes that he’s smarter than us and we should just shut up and do what he says. 

That’s not the way that it works Mr. President.  Consider this a warning from the people in charge.  You work for us.  We don’t work for you. Remember that.

Congratulations to …

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