Hold True Recordings offers a last minute endorsement for Yes on MA Questions 1 & 2



"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams


We here at Hold True Recordings, despite being heavily involved in the following of constitutional and political issues in our personal lives, don't often like to associate them with the label if for no other reason than just polite social courtesy to our supporters. We know people will disagree with some of our views, and may find disagreement even within this writing as well, but we respect and acknowledge everyones rights to such opinions and disagreements.

However, given the profound importance of this election cycle on both local and national levels, and how effective of a vessel HTR can be for reaching out to people who may not otherwise have the opportunity to hear and digest what is to follow in this statement, we have little choice and must speak out on 2 critical issues:

First - We support a YES vote on Massachusetts Question 1. A yes vote on question 1 will benefit over 3 million Massachusetts citizens by ENDING the income tax in Massachusetts and allowing the average citizen to retain around $3,700 of their hard earned money!! It will cut the MA State budget, by about 27% not the 40% that the special interest groups and teachers unions (who line their pockets with YOUR tax dollars via high and wasteful government spending) claim with their fear mongering and mathematically incompetent advertising. A yes vote will also help shrink the 41% wasteful spending that the Massachusetts government has been found guilty of in an April 2008 Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates survey, and should not require any additional taxation to continue proper funding when wasteful spending is curtailed with a yes vote on 1. Furthermore, voting yes on question 1 will NOT shrink income to Schools and local services like Police, Fire and EMS because the money that funds these organizations are appropriated locally by the towns and school districts they service. State government funding of these agencies is how the government CONTROLS which practices and policies they implement, often have negative effects on communities which do not fit the 'Big City' model such policies often are drafted for (think of the No Child Left Behind Act on the Federal level for an example).

For more information on why you should vote yes on 1 please visit: http://www.smallgovernmentact.org/


Second - We support a YES vote on Massachusetts Question 2. Decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana will ease the burden on our prison system and law enforcement, by making possession charges a civil offense, rather than a criminal offense. In the process, this will lessen the burden of tax payers who then have to foot the bill for such 'drug offenders' in the prison system, by keeping them from getting there in the first place!! It will also generate revenue for the state by way of fines and fees for those found to be in possession of small amounts of marijuana. All drug trafficking and driving under the influence of marijuana laws will remain unchanged.


*Disclaimer: Hold True Recordings dose not endorse or promote the use of marijuana or any other mind altering substance or drug.

P.S. The opinions addressed herein do not represent those of our bands.

"You like assplay? Cause he'll do anything with the ass..."

I love drugs.

P.P.S. While we're at it, we also endorse Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party for President of the United States!!

NO....YOU ARE NOT TAKING MONEY FROM THE RICH OF MASSACHUSETTS IF YOU SUPPORT QUESTION ONE!!!

THIS IS A MISCONCEPTION!

question one would take funding from DPH, and therefor jobs from underpaid, temps who work for the state and/or low level state employees (people who make somewhere between 10-16 dollars an hour, and work their asses off all day).

people who advocate question one wanna make it seem like the 15-30 dollars a week they take out of the average working citizen in MA is this epic amount that they are being screwed out of that lines the pockets of fat cats.

not so.
i work for the state
i make probably the same as (or less than) most of the people on this board.
and if question one passes...... there 99 percent chance that me and at least two of my co-workers will be among hundreds of other state employees to get laid off, while the higher ups keep earning the exact same amount of money......and if they start to run out, they absolutely WILL take from essential services.

don't be fooled by saving a few bucks. you will be fucking yourselves (and others) over if you help this piece of shit bill pass

this is FALSE, i don't know where you got this info, towns are appropriated money from the state, and what about all state schools and universities?

i'm all about small government but not about schools and social services getting raped. and they will if question #1 passes. no new teacher would want to work in MA.

i'm with you orgy! state employees offering a last minute endorsement for NO on question 1, YES on question 2 and NO on question 3!

if question one passes the cost of public colleges will double, increasing the ammount needed to almost that of a private school.

fuck that im in college i need all that money

-l- absofuckinglutely -l-

Well for those of you who want to know where we can make up the difference, DESPITE the 41% waste in government spending heres a few places to look and get pissed off at (and yes, funding for local services like schools and Emergency services are raised by the towns and districts they serve. I'm an EMT here in town as well when I'm not running the label).

Here are a few examples of waste we can get rid of:

· $7 billion in refinancing cost for the Big Dig.
· $2.55 billion MORE added this year to the lucrative pensions for retired stategovernment employees - who get 2-3 times the retirement income you'll get if you're an average taxpayer. Government employees retire in their 40's 50's and early 60's - while you have to work until your late 60s.

· $1 billion in tax subsidies to multi-billion dollar bio-tech pharmaceutical corporations.

· $2 billion in interest payments every year for unnecessary debt spending to fund road projects. Pay for roads with gasoline tax and auto registration fees, and there is no need to rack up debt. Liquidate some of the state's many financial slush funds to pay down debt and reduce interest payments.

· $138.7 million tax subsidy to millionaire movie stars and directors.

· Several billion dollars/year in excess government employee health care benefits. Bring their copays, deductibles and coverage in line with the average taxpayer.

· $60,000 to $70,000 a year paid to toll collectors - plus benefits, plus pensions. This is for UNSKILLED jobs – counting and making change. A job that can be done by public schools 5th graders, high school dropouts, people trying to get off welfare, or even mentally challenged individuals who want to be contributing members of society. But instead, these jobs go to people who have political connections. D:

and what do you make of the fact that state colleges are supposed to be more affordable yet if this bill is passed it no longer will be so.

hmmm, i don't know why it came out that way.....

oh....i should rephrase.
i got a long road ahead.....IF I DON'T GET LAID OFF!!!! (which i will if question one passes)

Well if the state schools were not proactively competing against private schools (MA state schools are among the most expensive in the country because of this) there prices would go down. U-Mass Lowell just a few years ago spent MILLIONS on a new recording studio that rivals anything owned in the private sector of the state, it even blows away private collages that specialize in recording and music. How dose that benefit the greater good of the commonwealth when most recording majors go to specialized schools?

unfortunately i have no faith that any of that wasted money will be put to better use. just less wasted money to the same or other useless programs/benefits/subsidies. and working the state education system i do know that public schools more often than not get money from the state that is ran through the town grinder first.

either way there's no good answer. maybe if the question actually meant we could cut and change failed programs, it might actually make a difference.

ORGY FOR PRESIDENT!

I noticed that no one is against yes on 2 :P

Well thank fuck some label I've never heard of came out with this endorsement, I almost thought for myself!!

-l-

you are correct.
money is wasted.
no one is debating that.
the debate is that if there is less money for them to waste, they will not fuck themselves.
they will fuck us!

I agree they will probably try, but, we as the voters and appointers of those that govern us, have the distinguished pleasure to fuck back by choosing who will return to office.

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MARIHUANA IS MUCH SAFER THAN DRIVING SOBER

there, I said it.

holy shit, aril logged in

he doesnt want people to think he's a chick

orgy your the fucking man, im surprised someone is actually backing me haha,

right now to attend and live in a dorm at bridgewater state college it is roughly 14000 dollars a year, and thats if you dont want the best dorms, if private schools were competing they wouldn't be charging 30 to 40k

i'm not necesarrily talking about the UMass campuses, those are universities, thats a completeley different story

and for the question 2 thing I really could care less . I don't smoke so w/e i don't give a shit.

seconded

these things mean nothing.
1) mass will never lose the state income tax. you wuld have to end the state, default on all moneys and bonds owned and start a new state. thhus mass would cease to be.

2) marijuana is a federal issue/law and state laws can do nothing to protect you.

nice try.

Actualy if you wanna get super technical the judges of the U.S. Supreme Court rejected any claims that the 16th Amendment changed the constitutional limits on direct taxes in Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co., 240 U.S. 1, when they ruled that it "created no new power of taxation" and that it "did not change the constitutional limitations which forbid any direct taxation of individuals". Therefor one could conclude that all income taxes are suspect.

yes, I logged in. I feel like I've gone through a sex-change operation now. awesome

Already offered my thoughts on Question 1 in another thread



But yeah, I've heard most of the arguments for because one of my friends played Bioshock, read Atlas Shrugged, got a job working for his daddy that wasn't under the table (and ended up having to pay taxes for the first time ever) and suddenly went from hardcore democrat to Question 1 zombie. I don't think he understands that 80% of his dad's business, and thus his paycheck, are state contracted jobs.

They should decriminalize vagina.


~~~HIGH FIVE!!!~~~

"You like assplay? 'Cause he'll do anything with the ass..."

I vomitchuckled from this post.

I could never trust the opinion of a person who signed a band called "Beautiful Gorgeous".

I'll bet you prefer chowder to bisque, too.

oh yeah, tell that to the federal tax that is the exact same thing. good for the gander. if the income tax is "voted down" it will mean NOTHING. mass will not lose the income tax.

Orgy/darkway- ya, my little sister would be losing her job too, and her job is anything but wasteful spending, and she doesn't even get paid that much.

you may not give a shit, but if you so 'fiscally concerned/responsible' you'd realize how much of your tax money is squandered by arrests, paper work, jail time etc etc...you dont have to be a smoker for this to effect on you.

and let me just add that even while you don't, there is probably someone close to you that does. And people have been put away for YEARS because of an ounce of weed. Imagine that being that person you know that isn't a drug addict, that doesn't steal from people for weed, that goes to work, and pays taxes, and doesn't drive drunk or sell it to kids. Still think they should go to jail?

or the kid on scholarship who looses it all and completely fucks up his future for one 'experimental' whack on a joint because he gets busted by the cops.

HAHA! amazing

thank you sir

seriously.
they already doing state employee layoffs.
even if i survive this round, i will definately be unemployed if question one passes.