So This Is How They Keep Us From Dumping Tea in the Harbor

Governor Deval Patrick has signed off on a "tax holiday" that will encourage people to go shopping and juice the local economy. If you don't feel like paying the state's 5 percent sales tax, then you can drop your bucks on whatever you like as long as it doesn’t go over $2,500 on the weekend of August 11 and 12.

Massachusetts has done this in the past because maybe the schools, the transportation, and the police and fire departments didn't need the $30 to $50 million it will cost the state. Oh, well. Cheap stuff! Whoopee!

Okay, that's enough sarcasm. The guv'mint will get that $30 to $50 million from us later, and then we can go dump some tea in the harbor.

Image of the Boston Tea Party from Wikipedia. We wonder what they would have done if Britain offered tax holidays.