Savvy shoppers crowded Boston-area malls and stores yesterday, taking advantage of the state's fifth annual sales tax holiday and saving 5 percent on items ranging from school supplies to expensive electronics. Retailers, fearful that the sluggish economy would keep spending down, were relieved.
Yup, recession averted because of the gimmick!
I'm so sick of the lying MSM acting as a cherreleader for this turd-shit economy!
Retailers have come to depend on the two-day sales tax holiday to spur spending, while consumers have come to expect it.
Then how about GETTING RID of it FOR GOOD?
Oh, no, we can't have that, says the pro-tax, agenda-pushers down at the BG!
Items priced up to $2,500 - except specialties like gas and tobacco - are tax-exempt. Since clothes are always tax-free, big draws yesterday were appliances, computers, and furniture.
Oh, it wasn't ALL TAXES, huh? PFFFFFTTT!
Did you fill up that gas tank before you went shopping?
Despite the holiday's apparent success, critics say it is an expensive gimmick that generates little additional economic activity.
"These things are always politically popular, and it's hard to stop them once they start," said Michael Widmer, the president of the Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation, a public spending watchdog group. "But when you have a billion-dollar budget shortfall, the state can't afford to give up another $15 million without any real payback."
And THERE is that guy AGAIN!!!
The Globe's resident pro-tax, pro-business specialist (type his name into my blog search).
Again, the Globe must not have liked his stand on this issue: they saved his comment for the last paragraph. If they liked his opinion, they would have placed it up front.
Of course, that was not the tone of the article at all! Take a look for yourself.
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Of course, the agenda-pushing Globe is in favor of this farce of a bribe, because the STATE is HELPING YOU, taxpayers!!
Not fooleyed anymore, BG!
