Posted on 03/19/2002 1:45:52 PM PST by mac_truck
As usual, no mention of the real conservatives in the major media. I hope Carla Howell kicks their butts. ;-)
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Massachusetts tax repeal initiative gets certified by attorney general
A Libertarian initiative to repeal the Massachusetts state income tax and save Bay State taxpayers $9 billion a year has been officially certified for inclusion on the November 2002 state election ballot.
On September 5, state Attorney General Tom Reilly announced the "Small Government Act to End the Income Tax" had met state constitutional requirements for ballot inclusion.
Potential LP gubernatorial candidate Carla Howell, whose Committee for Small Government is spearheading the initiative, said she was pleased with the decision.
"We're excited that Massachusetts taxpayers will have the opportunity to vote for a key plank in the Libertarian platform," she said. "The Small Government Act will be a long overdue windfall for Massachusetts families."
If approved by voters, said Howell, the Small Government Act (SGA) would eliminate the state's current 5% tax on wages, the 5% tax on interest and dividends, and the up-to-12% tax on capital gains -- resulting in an estimated savings of $2,000 per year for the average taxpayer.
"[The measure is] probably the largest percentage slash in [state] government and taxation proposed in the United States since the end of World War II," she said.
However, Howell said getting the measure listed on the ballot will be no easy task.
Proponents of the SGA must collect 57,100 certified signatures of Massachusetts residents by December 1. At that time, the proposal will be submitted to the state legislature for consideration.
If the Democrats and Republicans in the legislature fail to act on the measure by May 2002 -- as Howell predicts they will -- Howell and her Committee for Small Government must gather another 9,517 signatures by July 5 to put the measure before the voters.
Although Howell said Libertarians should expect massive opposition to the SGA from pro-tax organizations, she is optimistic about the effort.
During the past 20 years, no tax cut initiative has garnered less than 39% of the vote in Massachusetts, she said -- and a "bold" initiative such as this one has the potential to excite citizens who feel overburdened by stifling taxation.
"Our Libertarian ballot initiative means an end to Massachusetts income taxes on hard-working individuals and families," she said. "Ending the state income tax is good for workers, good for families, good for communities, and good for the charities and churches who depend on us."
http://www.lp.org/lpnews/0110/sga.html
I hate to say it but I feel much like you do.
My experience, from living in MA from 1991 to 1997, was that the idiots in MA keep voting for the same trash in the legislature and then they spend their money and time to push initiatives on issues that the people that they voted for won't pursue. Does that make sense to anyone?
Why do you all hate Romney so much?
The last ballot had people voting on things that NO ONE they elected would EVER endorse.
These people are insane. They are now invading NH and I have ALMOST given up the ghost in Mass. I think I will move to NH in a few years. After all, it is easier fighting invading Massholes then an established camp of Massholes. :D
Many of us in Mass have thought that for awhile but since that is not going to happen any time soon we have to look at other options.
When you look at the Rat pack running for gov, Mitt looks like Bob Barr. The Rats were counting on Swifty running and the election being decided in the primaries. There are a number of interesting ballot issues that should get out the vote, nice divicive ones, queer marrage for one, that should draw out the socal conservitives in the Rat party, with Mitt running looks good for us, right now.
Younger Massholes move up to NH because of the freedom and the low costs. Then these MORONS DEMAND the same services that they left back in the People Republic, never realizing that that is why the prices and taxes are so high in Mass in the FIRST place!
I watched it happen in horror to Florida and I could NOT BELIEVE that Florida was split Dem-GOP during the last election.
These Massholes are truly clueless. It would be amusing if it were not for the fact that they are so dangerous.
You sold me. I'm writing a check to Reich today.
I heard he was backing down but it is already going to be put on the ballot. Liberal Judicial Activists are trying to go directly to the courts so that the will of the people can be thwarted.
Damned commies. They are all for democracy when it suits them and then they try to subvert the process when thier damned liberal agenda is in danger. To them the ends justify ANY means.
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