Here is a new idea, why don't we cut spending instead of raising taxes.

Sure, let's start another round of raising the price of everything!!!

Good idea Ken! Let's get rid of the prevailing wage law and stop paying asphalt rakers upwards of $60 per hour (wage and benefits).

I agree with all who say: No New Taxes.

Enough with the tax and spend... let's not end up like RI or CA or NY or IL or all the other super blue states who are spiraling downward.

We are all paying way too much already in taxes, who are these rich people that want to pay more? How about cut welfare, food stamps and free phones?

20 people want to raise the gas tax. By all means our representatives should listen to them, right? We could have thousands of residents speak in favor of another issue, and they would be ignored. This is all a dog and pony show. The gas tax is going up. The reason is not because the state does not have enough of our money - it does. It is because our representatives are not good stewards of our noney. The reason that the MBTA and other transportation industries are broke is because of the pension system. This tax will be a bail-out for the unions. It will also help to pay for sex change operations for men who murder their wives. It will also pay for the bloated salaries of many un-needed positions in state government. We are just about taxed to death in Massachusetts and taxed AFTER death. We are struggling to keep our homes, A record number of women and children are living in poverty and are homeless, and we are once again going to be hit with more taxes, so that the unions can be given what they are promised by our "representatives".
Well....at least 20 people will be happy.

Does anyone know if cities and towns pay the gas tax to the state for their municipal vehicles?

I am sick of everything going up. We need people in office who can balance the budget and cut taxes. Shoot I found out my health insurance rates are up. So there goes my raise that I was "lucky" to get this year. All the corporations think about is how much work they can get out of us for as little pay as possible. That's if you can even get a job. Which brings me to another issue. Of jobs being shipped overseas and illegal immigrants working under the table. Ugh.

The price of gas is up so how can we be paying less in taxes. Hmm? Gvm't math is odd.

Hi Amy: The tax is 21 cents per gallon of gas. The price of gas doesn't matter.

No problem and thanks

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ~ LOWER ALL TAXES ~ CUT SPENDING DRASTICALLY

I get that people are upset at paying taxes. I dont like paying taxes either. One poster said to cut welfare, food stamps another said to cut spending "drastically". OK. Then where will be? There actually are people who rely on welfare, food stamps, SSI etc to live. I dont mean illegals and I dont mean criminals who manipulate the system. I mean regular werveryday people. Especially single parent families and the elderly. Make all those cuts and see how it affects them! Those that are criminals and scammers will work the system to keep getting what they dont deserve and those that do really need it are left without. And nowhere else to turn.

The 54th Massachusetts Regiment refused $13.00 a month because Instead of the standard $13-a-month wage for soldiers"the colored regiment" was paid $10. The regiment refused to accept the unequal pay. Ultimately, many blacks fought and died without accepting a penny from the federal government until Congress approved equal pay in 1864.That is just one example of those who's have built this beautiful country. So many more stories of hard wokig people..handouts were not an option.

Read My Lips, No New Taxes! Raising the gas tax will mean we will have to pay more at the pump. The cost always goes back to the consumer. Once the gas tax is raised it will have a spiral effect on everything else from increased prices at the pump to increased prices at the grocery store because of the transportation and fuel costs(gas prices and taxes) Bad news all around. How about lowering taxes and cut out of control spending. The liberals love taxes and they think every day is April 15th!

Paul,
It's been my experience with the liberals that I know of that they all love to raise taxes and spend our money like money was going out of style. I've never met a liberal democrat that didn't like to raise taxes.

How does a $3 million dollar 20-day Hawaiian vacation sound to you? For you and your family, all expenses paid. That's liberal spending at its best, and we won't even get into the losers like Solyndra and the rest of the pet make-work-for-union projects. Billions upon billions upon mind-boggling billions. That's why taxes must and will go up... and not just on the wealthy because there are just not enough of them to feed the liberal appetite for spending.

Hope Obama thinks of us while resting in Hawaii.

gas costs $6-8 dollars (equivalent) in Europe, which represents its true cost. How about we pay for road repairs or do you like ruining your car's suspension on the roads? Roads need upkeep.
Oh, it's so easy to gripe and crank out the same negatives.
Emcee, you usually manage to turn everything into a bash Obama screed. Did you attack Bush II for all the months and months he spent in TX?? Obama comes from Hawaii. He has family there, I believe. He wants to go back there and get away. The election was extraordinarily grueling thanks to Faux Gnus and the lying liars who wouldn't know reality if they fell over it. Give it up, will ya.

Great for Europe! Let's be just like them. If you can find a a Gvm't official that knows how to spend my hard earned money better than I do then please feel free to write them a big fat check. Are we back to Bush again? Where's Cindy Sheehan? Probably on her way to camp outside of Obama's luxury compound with Michael Moore and the rest of that fun crowd to protest the war?

did you even read my post? $6-8.00 a gallon is the actual cost given subsidies to oil companies. If you need to get angry at anyone, look at the industry that manages supply and demand to maximize profits. Then industry lobbyists are all over any congressperson who dares to question this, portraying them as anti-business. It's simplistic to point to the president and btw the same things were said when Bush II was president (but not by me). And please explain what Cindy Sheehan has to do with it. I barely even remember who she was. Why is she your scapegoat?