Boston Bernie Backers Probably Not Bashing Bruins
Of course what fans care about is whether their teams are winning or in the case of Boston fans also whether the New York teams they hate are losing. The people promoting the high state income taxes are bad for your hockey team theory might be disappointed how last season went. At the top of three divisions were teams from really bad tax environments (New York, Montreal and Anaheim). If you took the trouble to correlate goals scored with friendliness of the tax environment, you would find the relationship was inverse.
If I was going to construct an ideological explanation for that apparent anomaly, it would be that people who are heavily influenced by the local tax environment in spite of individual excellence, might not be great team players.
In the end despite the warning of Americans For Tax Reform. Boston fans can rest easy for now about the Bernie backers promoting the millionaire tax. It really might not be such a hot idea, but the all important fate of our professional sports teams probably does not hinge on it.
Bernie Sanders May Have Drawn Crowd Over 30,000 In Boston – Not Much Tax Talk
Karen Higgins, President of the National Nurses Union spoke about “breaking the class ceiling” and Bernie being for education not incarceration and the that he would be the President of the 99%. Jimmy O’Brien President of the Boston Carmen’s Union spoke about a move to privatize parts of the MBTA. They were followed by Jillian Brownsford, a nursing student at UMass-Boston and environmental author Bill McKibben, who took off his hat to show us he was as gray as Bernie.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.