New taxes for Mass taxpayers?

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27. Massachusetts is a funny small state with lots of value

We could put 20 Massachusetts in Montana, 30 in Texas, 50 in Alaska.


The "HUB" of Massachusetts is a small area within 30 mies of Boston, and that area has roads and bridges and trains over 100 years old.

How about a 0.5% tax on each and every business and non-profit within 30 miles of Boston, places like Bank of America, Fidelity, Harvard, MIT, MGH, Boston University, people who work and businesses and "profitable" non-profits who exist within 30 miles of Boston?

Such a tax allows REAL non-profits, like small colleges and hospitals to continue non-taxed.

If you want your place of business to be here, pay for the priviledge.


I bet that would net more than 10 Billion a year, when all businesses are brought into taxpaying compliance.

By contrast, asking each and every car to pay $20 more for annua inspection, even in North Adams, or Provincetown, or each driver to pay $50 more for a driver's license, and $.30 more for a gallon of gas $.30 cheaper in five neighboring states? silly