re: #349 Lincolntf

Hmmm, you’re in the middle of a recession, people are losing jobs every day, and your stated goal is to somehow help out the people feeling the pinch. What do you do? Well, if you’re Deval Patrick, you raise the state sales tax from 5 percent to 6.25 percent so that every single one of your constituents has less money, of course.
Mini-Obama in Mass.

“Well? It’s not like we have any other options. We were warned that we’d have to tighten our belts anyway.”

/they do say that