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

[meig.livejournal.com]

As much as I'd love to not have to pay taxes, I can see the stupidity in this. Where do people think the money is going to come from? Thin air?

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Oh wait. That's where it is coming from for the bailout. My bad.

[spazzy444.livejournal.com]

Well that is incredible.
I know one of the reasons TX has such a high property and sales tax is because we don't have an income tax, but surely that can't be all of it.

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

How do other states make up the difference?

[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