Massachusetts Enemies
This is a classic case of a state not learning the lessons of its own history. The way Massachusetts treats its divorced fathers is worse than the General Gage's failure to make friends with the local citizens, such as Sam Adams, Paul Revere, John Adams, John Carter, John Hancock, people like that. If he invited a few folks like these over to dinner and discussed their concerns and tried to see what he could do, we might today be using money with Queen Elizabeth's picture on it. But no, he had to enforce the Intolerable Acts and then send 800 troops out to Concord in a ham handed attempt to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock and enforce a gun control regulation!
What a dumbshit!
After the victory in the Revolution, the war torn state owed a great deal of money to the wealthy revolutionaries who pledged their "lives, honor, and FORTUNES", to the cause. The cause having been won, they wanted to be paid. There was an economic recession and the wealthy depended upon the loan payments while trying to re-establish commerce in the wake of war. Just like the English government who owed money for the costs of the Third Crusade and the ransom of King Richard, Massachusetts raised taxes beyond the tolerance of many of its people.
Result: Shays's Rebellion. More on this American Robin Hood story that actually happened.
But the Massachusetts of today is not any smarter. I'm not saying that the noncustodial parents need to resort to violence, just act in numbers. Voting. Protesting. Pleading the Antipeonage Act in their court hearings. Refusing to comply with the support orders, using Martin Luther King, Jr.'s old trick of stuffing the local prison full with protesters who refuse to be coerced. The day you stop being afraid of them is the day they start being afraid of you!!! Is it really any different than the situation faced by Daniel Shays and the other farmers with the courts awarding judgments against them without regard to the hardships thus imposed?
If however, we do see violence, we could no more blame the noncustodials than we blame the Massachusetts Minutemen of 1775!
The Department of Revenue operates the Child Support Enforcement Division.
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