I have a solution for companies confused by the New Massachusetts State Software services Tax that just went into effect.  Move to New Hampshire.

Miami Herald – According to the state revenue department, the state’s 6.25 percent sales tax now applies to “certain services relating to computer system design and to modification, integration, enhancement, installation, or configuration of standardized or prewritten software.”

Gloucester Times-  “Even the Department of Revenue doesn’t know exactly how this is going to work and what services it’s going to effect,” Rep. Randy Hunt, an East Sandwich Republican and certified public accountant, told the News Service. A former computer programmer, Hunt said, “I can guarantee there will be companies that don’t collect it that later find out that they should have.”

Nothing says “confidence like the phrase “I can guarantee there will be companies that don’t collect it that later find out that they should have.”

Maybe this will make those Massachusetts business owners feel better.

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The Title WMUR ran with was “Granite Staters unhappy with failure of gun background check bill.”  Were they?

A new poll shows almost half of Granite Staters think gun laws should be stricter, and a majority were angry or dissatisfied that an effort to expand background checks failed.

The WMUR Granite State Poll shows that 46 percent of those surveyed believe gun laws should be stricter, while 14 percent said they should be less strict. Another 37 percent thought they should remain about the same.

After all, a deflection from wrong doing by using the “well, everybody does it” sounds more like a tweener trying to get out of a bad spot with Mom & Dad rather than from a professional journalistic entity?  Or, is this simply yet another manifestation of how journalism is downgrading itself?  After all, after paying $1.4 Billion for the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette back in 1993, the NYT sells them off to Red Sox owner John Henry for $70 million – a 94% discount?  Places a high value of by the public on the Fourth Estate, yes?  And given that itself was recently sold…but I digress.

Given that quick discussions on “high value”, a few thoughts on an Editorial they recently did on Voter Fraud (reformatted, emphasis mine): Party flap hardly voter fraud case

To hear New Hampshire Republican Party Chair Jennifer Horn tell it, Democrats are trying to steal elections in the state.

Horn recently wrote state Attorney General Joe Foster, asking him to investigate media reports that state Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth, allowed four Democratic campaign workers to live at her house and use her address to register to vote in the 2012 elections. The Republican Party head accused Fuller Clark of creating “a sanctuary for voter fraud.”

Well, at least the Telegraph deigned to mention Martha’s Motel – I guess the story coming out of the blogosphere (er, us) finally started to percolate (you DO read the ‘Grok, eh Kevin Landrigan?).  It will be interesting to see if the new AG, a former Democrat State Senator, will do anything more than any other former AGs (including Republican ones as well).  There have been reports, credible reports, of voter fraud from all over the state over the years.  Multiple times, people like Ed Naile (a registered Democrat, I might add), these instances have been brought to the authorities – only to see them “round filed” or lost into the black maw of a political bureaucracy that seemingly is more content with the status quo of the First In The Nation Primary than defending its underlying foundation of a fair process that has a rock solid reputation for integrity (James O’Keefe, Geoff Wetrosky any one?).

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Yes, yes, we know the left promised good jobs with living wages for American families.  The left promised us we’d be under boiling seas as well–didn’t stop the limousine liberals from owning or spending slivers of their fortunes on beachfront property.  Obama Care was filled with more progressive promises than you can shake a multi-thousand page bill at (or a stick if you prefer) but most of those chickens came home to the roost to find they might lose their doctor, their carrier, maybe even their full time job, and that meant kissing the nest egg good bye to pay the higher cost of premiums the Democrats promised us would go down.

What can I say besides we told you so.  We elected a part-time president (twice) who is a full time progressive that spends most of his time either campaigning for the job he already has or promoting the lies that are all too real to jobless American families living off empty promises.

The most recent mouthful of that never-so-tasty reality sandwich is that the full-time progressive part-time President is now the overseer of part-time nation.

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From Hot Air rips apart a post over at The Daily Beast that says “we all can pay more for our burgers at Mickey D’s to lift the employees out of poverty – and nails the underlying philosophical stupidity on the head:

One point which seems to confuse the social justice battalion is this idea they seem to be stuck on that there is some sort of obligation or social contract which states that industry is obligated or intended to create jobs, and good paying ones at that. The fact is, job creation was never one of the driving factors in the evolution of industry. It was only a happy side effect.

Jazz has THE point – both the Liberal and Progressive wings of the Democrat Party (and with the takeover of the Party by the extremist Socialism that is the New Left, isn’t that just one in the same?) see Government as being the ultimate balm on Society’s ills – it just lacks sufficient money to give all people all the things they believe to be necessary (e.g., EBT cards in MA with $7,000 limits, and MA Gov Deval Patrick’s attempt to have cars issued to those on welfare).  They see where the money is – business – and are upset that it isn’t “all ours together”).  There is little sense of the Right of Private Property with these anti-Americans (and I say that for America was very much built on the principle of Private Property and that government could not just “take it” as the Kings of yore used to do.   These latter day Neo-Feuldalists  problem is that they hate capitalism and business just as badly as the original Royalty did – even as the Royalty of the time thought, how do we put these upstarts into their proper place?  So while they see capitalism as being evil and nasty, they know it to be necessary but wish to control it completely.  And thus, use the levers of Government to “make it so”.

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In the on going gun / anti-gun battles that have been going on since Aurora and Sandy Hook, much has been made of the “gun violence” and that the gun-grabbers think that all that is necessary is for all gun ownership to be severely curtailed if not outright stopped; no guns in civilian hands (which would put a smiley face on Diane Feinstein).  Chicago has been the focus of much of the discussion as the ongoing slaughtering of of black young males doesn’t seem to be slowing down.  Yet, New York City has it’s own problems as the NY Post lays out the violence Friday night.  And in the listing of the deaths was this:

The bloodshed continued in Queens when a 10-year-old girl in Far Rockaway got caught in a hail of bullets, one of which grazed her hip, cops said.

The girl was stepping out of her apartment at 1:30 a.m. with a group of friends when two males on bikes rode up and started firing at two other men, cops said

The gunmen missed their intended target and struck the young bystander.

She was taken to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition.

As a parent – horrified.  Not just that a little girl was hurt but at the circumstances under which this happened:

• A 10 year old girl
• 1:30 in the morning?  REALLY??
• From HER home?
• With Friends – her age?

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