Yes, it is time for a Second American Revolution!!!
"MWRA proposes increase in rates; Average home's bill would go up $16" by David Abel, Globe Staff | June 21, 2008
Households in Boston and 21 other communities in Massachusetts are likely to pay an average $763 for water and sewer services next fiscal year, a 4.5 percent increase over this fiscal year, according to proposed rate increases by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.
The rates, which will be reviewed next week by the authority's board of directors and could take effect as early as July 1, would hike the average home's water and sewer bill by $16.
The authority has been raising rates since 1995 - the last year without an increase - to cover the costs of the Boston Harbor cleanup and extensive improvements in the region's drinking water, authority officials said. About 57 percent of the authority's budget is now devoted to paying its debts....
Oh, I see!!!
The water rates going up so the state bureau can COVER ITS DEFICITS!!!
This as they want a pay raise!
Pffffttt! Tuck trou and spread, citizen!!!!
"Fair or not fair, this is what the budget is," said Joe Favaloro, executive director of the authority's advisory board...."
That's why my ass is hurting.
They got you coming AND going, too, readers....
WORCESTER - The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority - facing a near-certain toll increase - turned up the heat on the Legislature yesterday to get it to help pay for the Big Dig and mandated discount programs.
(Blog author just shaking his head at the state shakedown)
Alan LeBovidge, executive director of the authority, said at the agency's monthly meeting, "we're doing what we can" to trim expenses, especially in light of rising fuel costs, but added there's not much more that can be cut.
The agency is facing three main scenarios: rebalancing the toll fares across the state, which is unlikely to cover the shortfall; raising toll fares; or receiving more money from the state.
It ALL COMES FROM US, doesn't it?
Transportation Secretary Bernard Cohen agreed in a telephone interview after the meeting that the agency couldn't "save its way" out of the shortfall and said, "If there's no additional state money, then most likely tolls will go up."
Cohen, who is also chairman of the authority's board and who presided over the meeting, added that "there are limited sources of additional funding....
Unless you are a WAR-PROFITEERING CORPORATION, a BANK or ISRAEL!!
Judy Pagliuca, also a board member, suggested the agency tell tollpayers how high the tolls would need to be raised if the authority does not receive outside assistance.
"I think if the tollpayers see the information, and if they get upset about it, then maybe something can be done at the state level," Pagliuca said.
Fellow board member Mary Z. Connaughton predicted that tollpayers would be angry.
"The tollpayers, when they see those numbers, are really going to be up in arms," she said. "It's up to the state to do the right thing."
Look at them MANIPULATE and USE the public to get OUR MONEY to pay for that DEBACLE in Boston!!!!
Either way, WE PAY!!!!
I'm really starting to hate all government because all it is is an OPPRESSIVE RIP-OFF!!!!
The meeting focused on the fairness of the state's toll system, which relies on turnpike users to pay for the toll-free roads used by drivers traveling north and south. Toll fares on the western portion of Interstate 90 haven't increased since 1990, and Interchanges 1 to 6 are toll-free for noncommercial vehicles; that represents $60 million to $75 million of untapped revenue annually, according to the report.
And the greedy, wasteful, money-hungry state wants to get its grubby little mitts on it!
That money could be used for maintenance and construction on that portion of the turnpike to meet the scheduled toll removal in 2017...."
I am SICK of the FALSE PROMISE SHIT-STICK on a rope hanging in front of my face, shitters!!!!
Of course, the Boston Globe is all for looting the taxpayers (elites helping elites):
.... The state needs a competent judiciary, and while the recommended amount is less than a top-notch lawyer can earn, the extra money would at least put judicial salaries equivalent to first-year associates at major Boston law firms. The salaries would also be indexed to the cost of living, a necessary corrective to the current practice in which raises are sporadically given years apart, only to be eroded by inflation....
WTF?! Whatever happened to PATRIOTIC PUBLIC SERVICE!?!
You know, like you, right, Globe?
Not about the $$$, but about serving the public, right?
Not about making money and pushing agendas, right?
RIGHT?
Or is eating shit just confined to the bottom rungs of the ladder?
Raises for the other constitutional officers are less pressing, but their pay should be adjusted to account for inflation...."
Of course, THEY HAVE a JOB!!!
Yeah, not like schools are closing or anything.
Better off giving the $$$ to rich actors and corporate favorites.
And just WHO EXACTLY is going to PAY FOR ALL THIS?
Oh, I see. Taxpayers are NEVER HIT BY INFLATION!
Also see: Massachusetts' Billion Dollar Boondoggle
