New taxes for Mass taxpayers?

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17. You missed my point

It was not my job to verify the validity of the list that was used by the State. It was my hope that the State would be doing a better job at that. In terms of me doing the mailings, I am not a Billion Dollar Organization with multitudes of people in my work force. If it was my responsibility as Dept head, I would be disappointed with nothing less than 100%, because that means we missed somebody for either the original intent of the voter registration or assets may not be directed to places or people that needed those funds. Funds that even their own Dept. could use for someone on a waiting list, not just the general public.

You already had the news stories in your post, but below here is the first one and the following article, the one were the State looked into the problem and gave their response. i did not include them because you will not believe they are valid because it is a Right Wing publications. You also missed my point that it was a story that one should read and then follow up to gain more information elsewhere. My assertion was that there was 19,000 missing people on the roles from a State run database and there could be a lot of money being wasted. . So before the State asks my already strained budget to break, please do a better job for us. Then when they have their house in better order, come to the PEOPLE and have a dialog about how to fix the problems and not just default to raising taxes. That is intellectually lazy and disingenuous to quote a phrase.

I could have just as easily mentioned the waste at the Probation Office and the Hiring Scandal, the waste in construction costs on the Big Dig and the Non-Profit Rose Kennedy Greenway Association. So in one point you are correct, the example I used was a poor one in as much that people on welfare are vilified by the strong and should not be used as a rock to hit someone over the head with. They should be protected.

"The Department of Transitional Assistance contacted 477,000 welfare recipients who were on their books from June 1, 2011, to May 31, 2012," from the article linked below. Your 70,000 is short based on State own numbers.

The only mistake here is that you assumed that there was some kind of hate on my part for people on welfare. I am a Father of 4 beautiful Children whose mother is sick, making me pretty much a single parent, and me asking my State to do a better job before they put me in bankruptcy is some how hate speech. I cannot afford any new taxes, they will wipe me out. They irony being that I am just above their threshold to qualify for help. Where does it all go, look at the price of gas (one of the things they want to raise taxes on) price of food (mileage tax and gas tax will be passed on to consumers), my mortgage to keep a nice safe roof over my kids head ( I hope the deduction does not get cut by the Feds). So yes I am a little mad that the State is looking to me for more money, I am here fighting for my children.



http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/welfare_recipients_%E2%80%98missing%E2%80%99
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/01/gov_vows_review_welfare_clients