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In Florida, teachers and other moonbats came up with the idea of dropping off 2.6 million pennies on the state capitol steps to show support for a one-cent boost in the state sales tax.

A bunch of people spent time collecting $26,000 dollars in pennies to rally for a tax increase only to give the money raised to a charity that has nothing to do with education.

This is more insane then Massachusetts voters choosing not to abolish the state income tax last November. How’s that working out these days?

Let’s see there’s proposals for a nineteen cent state gas tax increase when you fill up at the pump and a carbon usage tax when you park at Logan Airport. They also want to increase the restaurant and hotel tax. There was even an idea floated for a tracking device in the inspection stickers so residents could be taxed on mileage.

Next up I guess is a tax on existence. Live another year, pay a fee. Makes you want to get out of bed every morning doesn’t it comrade?

Give the politicians a tax inch and they will take a couple thousand miles, especially when we give them the green light to take more and more of our hard-earned income.

Pennies at a time of course. You know, the coins with Abraham Lincoln on them.

You can rest assured, however residents of the Commonwealth, all those tax proposals are already creating jobs.

Recently, Governor Deval Patrick picked former state senator Marian Walsh to be the assistant executive director of the Health and Educational Facilities, a position that has not been filled in twelve years.

A government position mind you, that has two prefixes in the title. How that one stayed vacant for so long is beyond me. There’s usually a waiting list for those kinds of hack positions, especially in Massachusetts.

And in a show of good faith, she has agreed to a pay cut, reducing her salary from $175,000 to $120,000.

What a trooper. She feels our pain.

I just hope Marian will be able to survive on that kind of income. No more Chilean Sea Bass for dinner every other evening. The pate for the dinner party next week will have to be canceled.

Oh the humanity.

It’s no wonder why our government and taxes are joined at the hip. They are soulmates. Both like long walks on the beach, paying people with our money to do nothing, and running up tons of debt.

Here’s one for you nineteen for me, gas tax that is. Not to worry though because it’s only pennies right?

Chris Cameron writes this political humor insanity every Tuesday and Wednesday here at Radioactive Liberty.