Reasons to Vote No on Question 1

[asterroc]

In November, Massachusetts ballots will have the question "should we repeal the state income tax." The supporters say it will give each citizen back an average of $3,600. For everyone else, consider that the income tax represents 37% of the state budget, or $12 billion. I urge all Massachusetts citizens to vote NO on this question (Question 1, and it will be on the back of the ballot with the presidents on the front). To this end, I'm going to post some reasons why you should vote against Question 1.

The reason of the day:

"The state could fire all 67,000 state employees - every prison guard and college teacher - and still have to find another $7 billion." --The Boston Globe

Comments

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

I came across this last night for entirely different reasons, but you might find it interesting: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~cromer/ and particularly: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~cromer/draftbeast408.pdf

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Huh! Interesting. I'll have to read it more, but the abstract definitely intrigues me.