MA Ballot Question #1

The impetus for today's arguments is due to the fact that tomorrow (November 4th, 2014) our great nation will head to the polls to elect our *leaders*.  In Massachusetts, that generally means looking at the ballot, chuckling, and then writing in the name of your best friend or closest relative.  While it's true that Charlie Baker would appear to have the governorship in hand (unless he screws up in the next 24 hours), it's really a position that holds no power, unless he goes Obama and simply (illegally) issues executive orders for the next 4 years.  Elsewise, it's going to be a real boring 4 years for Charlie as he watches the MA legislature (comprised of something like 943% Democrats) do whatever the Hell they want as they know they'll always get elected in this state.  For Pete's sake, we kept electing Ted Kennedy and he murdered a woman!  If the democrats had their way, they would have kept electing him even after he died, and continued to cast his vote for him in D.C.

However, I digress.  The first question really is as straight forward as ballot questions come in MA, and it will look something like this when you get your ballot tomorrow:

QUESTION 1: Law Proposed by Initiative Petition

Eliminating Gas Tax Indexing

Do you approve of a law summarized below, on which no vote was taken by the Senate or the House of Representatives on or before May 6, 2014?

SUMMARY

This proposed law would eliminate the requirement that the state’s gasoline tax, which was 24 cents per gallon as of September 2013, (1) be adjusted every year by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index over the preceding year, but (2) not be adjusted below 21.5 cents per gallon.
A YES VOTE would eliminate the requirement that the state’s gas tax be adjusted annually based on the Consumer Price Index.
A NO VOTE would make no change in the laws regarding the gas tax.

Giving a politician money is like giving an arsonist a book of matches:  sooner or later, you know they'll both burn through whatever you give them.  As the law stands now, Democrats (and it is democrats, because they are like Communists in Cuba:  they control everything.) don't even have to bother to go on record to reach in to our wallets and purses, they simply have to wait for the inflation numbers to be announced (and yes, I believe the government would rig the inflation numbers in order to increase our tax burden.) and then they get another pile of money each time someone heads to the pump.  There is no accountability at all with how the law is currently written, only access to more cash at every turn.

A YES  vote on question 1 would at the least force legislators to go on the record in favor of raising our taxes.  In my opinion, this is one of the more onerous taxes on the books, there is absolutely no reason to allow this law to continue on as it is.

A no vote states very clearly that you are either a:  a government employee or b:  don't give a damn about anything.  Do the right thing- vote yes and bring accountability back to tax hikes.