Jim Bates: More degrees than a thermometer, zero common sense

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Published: 07-13-2024 9:38 PM

Our state continues to hemorrhage citizens. According to IRS data and reported in The Boston Herald last month. This state lost $3.9 billion dollars in tax revenues in 2022.

Buyers remorse for “Fair Share” millionaires tax, anyone?

Yet, they’ll spend close to $1 billion to house and feed thousands of people who crossed our border illegally and reside in our state.

The political class wants to ban natural gas, to “de-carbonize” our state. A new activist buzzword.

The state Legislature is making laws so you can not choose clean natural gas to heat and cook in our homes.

Local activists are against solar battery backup storage.

What will happen when the sun goes down or it’s cloudy for a few days and solar panels no longer produce electricity?

Many towns in western Massachusetts made changes to local bylaws to make it difficult for large solar arrays to be built.

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Hippie-dippies who were all for solar 10 years ago are now opposed to it. Something or someone will have to give in.

There are many people in this state, especially politicians, who have more degrees than a thermometer but have zero common sense.

Many of them refer to themselves as doctor, even though their degree is in gender or ethnic studies.

I only refer to people as doctor with an MD at the end of their name.

Larry, of Three Stooges fame once said “we graduated with the highest temperatures in our class.” Somehow I think he knows more than our present day politicians in our sad state of affairs, Massachusetts.

Jim Bates

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