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Anti-tax backer 'intellectually dishonest'

By adamg on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 8:52pm

Rick Holmes, opinion editor at the Metrowest Daily News, explains why he isn't buying Carla Howell's effort to repeal the Massachusetts income tax in November:

Carla Howell, the leader of the income-tax-repeal effort, came in to see me last week. I have an editorial here about the question I keep asking: Is the point of the referendum to "send a message" or enact a law?

Howell says it's about enacting a law, one that would remove some $12 billion from the state budget. Fine, but if you are going to ask the voters to make decisions on the budget, you ought to be able to provide some details, and Carla appears to have decided not to. ...

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By adamg on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 8:48am.

Sure, the people who want to repeal the tax haven't brought in a lot of money and, sure, a lot of that is going into their own pockets. But the Outraged Liberal explains why that's deceptive:

... Anyone want to check out Barbara Anderson's success rate in winning anti-tax ballot questions? And virtually all of that success is built on a foundation of activists who have never met a tax they liked -- even if those taxes helped to pay for police, fire, schools and trash removal.

That's even before we get to the mismanagement of the Big Dig and the MBTA.

This is a question that received 45 percent voter approval in better economic times. Anyone care the suggest things are great these days? ...

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