Real Romney Record in Massachusetts
Real Romney record in Massachusetts By Matt Kinnaman Article Last Updated: 02/01/2008 01:08:08 PM EST
Saturday, February 02 LEE Massachusetts has suffered for nearly 50 years under a growing Democrat monopoly in the Legislature, leading to one of America’s most inhospitable business and economic climates. When Mitt Romney was inaugurated governor in 2003, the Massachusetts Legislature was drunk with deficit spending, and awash in regulatory revels, suffocating entrepreneurial energy and reducing incentives for existing companies to stay in the state, never mind relocate here. These same lawmakers routinely ignored the will of the voters on ballot initiatives, including their smack-down of the people’s approval of an income tax reduction which the Legislature refused (and still refuses) to implement.
It’s no wonder that Mitt Romney inherited a state economy that trailed overall national numbers in manufacturing, output, job growth, and employment. The real wonder is that, as a Republican governor entering this morass of economic opposition and obstructionism he was able to pull the budget into the black and build a big surplus, while forestalling an adversarial Legislature on income and capital gains tax increases.
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