Keep in mind,
@Maura_Healey
just signed the largest state budget in history (nearly $2B more than last year) and we learn that state revenues for the month of July are about 1% lower than last July. This state is on a crash course unless it starts to lower spending.
#mapoli
It’s so hard to run a retail business in Boston. Some of the highest property taxes, most expensive regulations, and a Mayor and Governor who want to make it even more expensive.
“The poor decision to endorse a ballot question that wrote into the state constitution an 80% income tax hike on some high-income earners, small business owners, home sales, and retirees is having a devastating impact.”
Immigration lawyer says MA is issuing driver’s licenses to illegals.
19 states & the District of Columbia allow illegals to get driver’s licenses.
Today 198 Democrats voted against a law which would require proof of US citizenship to vote.
Do the math.
You are there to tell us taxpayers to cut our consumption, while you 🛩️ around.
So much narcissism, self celebration, pageantry, and flaunting your status.
#mapoli
Thank you to
@USinHolySee
Ambassador Joe Donnelly for welcoming us to Rome! Excited to be here with
@MayorWu
, Climate Chief Hoffer,
@UMassBoston
Chancellor Suarez-Orozco, and UMass President Meehan for the Vatican’s Climate Summit. Massachusetts is already a climate leader, and
As Governor
@maura_healey
converts Norfolk Prison into our state's latest migrant shelter, there's still no answers for residents of the Town of Norfolk. Our latest video 👇👇
#Mapoli
“You can remind
@ChrisSununu
that I'm proud to be the first governor in over 20 years to cut taxes,”
@maura_healey
.
Someone remind Gov. Healey, NH is tax free. How out of touch can one person be?
#mapoli
#NHPolitics
"Decisions to raise taxes, fees, or adding tolling should be made by our elected legislature, not announced by an overzealous, unelected bureaucrat before a special interest advocacy organization,”
#mapoli
“Boston has a spending problem,” said Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance. “It’s driven by the politicians who promise away the future for today’s votes. The bloated pensions are the latest example of the mismanagement from Boston City Hall.”
#mapoli
MassFiscal, a conservative watchdog, said the millionaire’s tax is not working.
“Gov.
@Maura_Healey
is dealing with an economy she helped create. It’s safe to say the income surtax is driving wealth and resources out of the state,” said MassFiscal.
State Auditor
@DianaDiZoglio
shares why auditing the legislature is so important to bring more transparency and accountability to the State House.
#mapoli
Boston may not be able to fix their pot holes, but they’ll try to stop world wide climate change.
“For the first time, Boston has a chief climate officer”
An investigation into what happened in the Rockland migrant hotel is finally happening, but not due an elected official from Massachusetts. Our Governor & legislature prefer to ignored it. Thank you
@Jim_Jordan
!
During
@maura_healey
’s “hiring freeze,” they hired about 200 state employees! Only at the Massachusetts State House does a hiring freeze not mean a hiring freeze.
#mapoli
.
@MassFiscal
's latest video of
@Maura_Healey
's trip to Italy to speak about climate change while putting migrants at the old Norfolk prison. ✈️ 🇮🇹
#mapoli
The 2023 data is starting to roll in & MA continues to lose taxpayers, while raising taxes. Taxpayers love MA but can't afford to live here & want their hard earned paycheck to go farther, which often moves them out of state.
The people of Massachusetts shouldn't be forced to spend their hard-earned money on precarious energy sources resulting in environmental cleanups and unreliable, unproven outcomes.
#mapoli
FYI: In two days, on 8/7, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island are set to announce a new major offshore wind development project. If you have concerns over one turbine blade in our ocean, you better pay attention to this announcement.
#mapoli
Yesterday, the MA state senate rejected an amendment that would have given MA residents priority over newly arrived migrants regarding the right to shelter law. The vote is below and the full story can be read here:
IRS has released new data on interstate migration. For households with income over $200,000, the best in-migration/out-migration ratio is Florida, and the worst ratio is Illinois.
America is in a full-blown housing crisis, and it’s no secret why: we don’t have enough housing.
I'm introducing a major bill to build 3 million new homes and lower the cost of housing – all paid for by taxing the ultra-wealthy.
Worth pointing out, Steve Pagliuca, co-owner of the Boston Celtics, became a Florida taxpayer the same month the MA surtax went into effect. He claims it’s for personal reasons….
#mapoli
Congratulations, Celtics!
Because of Massachusetts’ Income Tax & Millionaires Tax, they’ll end up paying $72,360 in additional state taxes just because they won.
If they played & lived in New Hampshire, they’d pay nothing to the state for winning the NBA Finals.
Vineyard Wind officials will face the music at 5:30pm on Nantucket as they attend the island Select Board meeting to brief town officials and answer questions. Watch live here:
"If
@WuTrain
had her way, she would have made Boston’s economic recovery more painful and much slower ... Boston politicians need to embrace the idea of making Boston more affordable by lowering taxes and eliminating regulations.”
#mapoli
“It’s close to almost $1 million to buy a home in Massachusetts. That is absolutely absurd and unacceptable.”
The state AG's office is looking into the affordable housing crisis:
At 1pm today, the MA legislature will hold a hearing on
@Maura_Healey
's proposed increase the real estate transfer tax to fund affordable housing. You heard that right, raise the cost of housing to make it affordable...
Tune in ⤵️
Closing beaches on Martha’s Vineyard because of debris coming from
@VineyardWindUS
toxic and jagged turbine blade pieces washing ashore. Lifeguards insisting people get out of the water because the debris is potentially dangerous. It’s been 2.5 weeks of this mess impacting
"As quickly as possible" left us with millions of shards of fiberglass and Styrofoam polluting our ocean and beaches. Maybe read the room and tap the breaks
@Maura_Healey
.
#mapoli
.
@Maura_Healey
doubles down on the immediate development of offshore wind.
"We need to be able to implement that infrastructure build-out as quickly as possible, so that we can more quickly realize the power of renewables..."
#mapoli
Obviously, losing a small business owner or high income earner to FL or NH is quite different from gaining a migrant. Unfortunately that’s not so obvious to everyone…
“The state’s population grew for the first time since 2020… One big reason… net international migration
“Decisions to raise taxes, fees, or adding tolling should be made by our elected legislature, not announced by an overzealous, unelected bureaucrat before a special interest advocacy organization."
Here’s your “clean” expensive and weather dependent energy. Full investigation should be the next step. It’s unacceptable that this is already happening. All the blades need to retested.
#mapoli
A big bill to keep an eye on is
@Maura_Healey
's housing bill. The Governor proposed a 2% sales tax increase when you sell property but the legislature didn't include this tax. Its still possible, they could sneak it back in. We'll keep you updated on what happens to this today.
The offshore wind company should be held responsible for the environmental clean-up which will negatively impact marine animal life, tourism, and the fishing industry. This wreckage should prompt an immediate investigation into the blades currently installed and all the blades in
Our power grid can barely handle high loads as it is, yet lawmakers continue to force reliable generation out of the market while mandating bans on combustion engines and mandating EVs. This is a recipe for high electrical rates AND black outs!
#mapoli
A top Senate budget writer warned tax collections in Massachusetts for July were expected to be “very bad,” a sign that the state’s economic woes of the past fiscal year are likely to continue into the new one.
NEW: GE Vernova informed Nantucket officials this afternoon that several sections of the damaged turbine blade detached from the hub. Some large pieces entered the water column, while smaller pieces floated on the surface. Additional debris landed on the turbine platform.
Congratulations to all the taxpayers who escaped Boston. Your elected officials can’t even take the oath of office without making it into some kind of ideologically driven political statement.
Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was told to retake the oath of office after a video showing her not saying the words or raising her right hand during Monday’s inaugural ceremony went viral on social media, the Herald has learned.
After supporting an 80% tax hike on certain individuals & allowing the option for our municipalities to increase taxes on our cars & homes, Healey reverses course & opposes taxes. After her taxation blitz, it’s hard to believe her new found opposition.
“The people she’s villainizing are just ordinary people trying to go about their everyday lives. Our state government should make life easier for people, not harder.”
#mapoli
The conservative
@MassFiscalcalled
for Tibbits-Nutt’s firing, with alliance spokesperson calling her remarks at the event“simply reprehensible.”
story by
@JeremyCFox
#mapoli
Celebrating fully funding the Sagamore bridge replacement with federal, state, and local officials! Now we need to pivot to securing funding for the Bourne Bridge
Today, the state senate considers a vote to make natural gas harder to obtain. As you cool your home during this heat wave, you can thank natural gas.
#mapoli
NEW: ICE Boston says the Middlesex County Superior Court didn’t honor their detainer request and released into the community without notice a Brazilian illegal alien indicted on TEN COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED CHILD RAPE in MA.
Yes, you read that correctly.
ICE later found & arrested
The Boston City Council passes
@MayorWu
’s home rule petition to temporarily change the city’s property tax classification on an 8-4 vote, with 1 voting present
Ranked Choice Voting elections are bad for Massachusetts and bad for democracy. They are confusing, don't deliver on their promises, and allow for political activists to have an outsized influence on the outcome. Keep MA elections simple with one person and one vote.
#mapoli
.
@RepPaulFrost
's amendment to add a residency requirement to the state's Right to Shelter law benefit is below. THANK YOU to the 29 bi-partisan House lawmakers for standing up in support of common sense reform and the taxpayers.
#mapoli
Boston Mayor
@wutrain
said she would support a policy that refuses to prosecute the following crimes:
-shoplifting
-larceny
-disorderly conduct
-receiving stolen property
-driving with a suspended license
-breaking and entering with property damage
-wanton and malicious
"Fury as US state weighs up border toll for visitors and declares war on pickup trucks in move neighboring residents insist is another 'unnecessary' money grab"
#mapoli
#mapoli
There is no justifiable reason to oppose requiring only U.S. citizens the ability to vote in elections and only U.S. citizens should be registered to vote. Unfortunately, every Massachusetts House member in Congress did just that.
#mapoli
NEW: Per law enforcement sources, the Haitian migrant who was charged with raping a 15-year-old girl at a migrant hotel outside of Boston in March was released from local custody yesterday after the Plymouth Superior Court gave him a low $500 bond & ignored ICE’s detainer request
"There is nothing as expensive as making something free. The cost will inevitably balloon and the taxpayers will forever be obligated to pay for this irresponsible decision. There is nothing more irresponsible than a politician making something 'free' and implying to people that
Mass. Senate is including $75.5 million in its budget to cover tuition and fees for all residents attending community college. Students who make 125% or less of the state's median income can receive a stipend of up to $1,200 for books and supplies
#mapoli
Why is MA so expensive explained...
@JamieEldridgeMA
amendment 132, increases the deed excise tax & to direct increased amounts to the "Global Warming Solutions Trust Fund," the "Affordable Housing Trust Fund," & the "Housing Preservation and Stabilization Trust Fund." 👎
#mapoli
“Campaign donations have bought their support for a project that makes very little sense at this point. Elected officials should think objectively on policy decisions, but in this case, their judgment is getting blinded by the campaign donations they are receiving.”
#mapoli
As Nantucket continues to reel from the Vineyard Wind turbine blade failure, critics are raising concerns around how the project’s parent company, Avangrid, has donated thousands of dollars in campaign money to state elected officials.
What kind of "reporting" is this?
@Boston25
please do much better. This is shamefully wrong & inaccurate.
The Democratic super majority can call the legislature into session & pass their controversial spending package with a roll call vote. Instead they made this mess & you
Where’s our Governor today? Ireland, Italy, the White House? No one really knows…
“
@Maura_Healey
attended last night’s White House state dinner. It wasn’t on her list of public events.”
#mapoli