[AU72]

There is a box in the Mass. State Tax return that you can check if you want to pay a higher rate. Almost nobody does.

[NHResident]

You are absolutely correct - Howie Carr has mentioned it many times - the actual per cent of Bay State mASSholes that check off the box and pay more state taxes is something on the order of .005% of taxpayers! All mouth!

[Gay State Conservative]

There is a box in the Mass. State Tax return that you can check if you want to pay a higher rate. Almost nobody does.

EXACTLY! Folks outside the Gay State wouldn't know it but it's true.I once heard from a local Boston talk host that something like 800 people checked that box in some recent year....600 in a state,a very *wealthy* state,of 6 million people.

[maryz]

There is a box in the Mass. State Tax return that you can check if you want to pay a higher rate. Almost nobody does.

Right! And I hear that, based on the figures of how many pay the higher rate and what it brings in, the handful that choose to pay it would seem to be making $30,000 or less.

[RightOnline]

"There is a box in the Mass. State Tax return that you can check if you want to pay a higher rate. Almost nobody does."

Gee golly. Color me shocked. :)