Charlie Baker, the Republican candidate for governor, on Wednesday packed together a series of tax cuts for businesses and other ideas he said would help spur job creation.
The range of proposals, bound in a colorful booklet and titled “Great Again Massachusetts – A New Direction For Prosperity,” includes a promise not to cut local aid and to develop vacant state-owned land.
Some of the ideas Baker has talked about previously in the campaign, including his plans to eliminate a state tax on business inventory and to exempt businesses that earn less than $500,000 from the state corporate tax.
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Baker said the tax cuts would cost the state $250 million to $300 million in revenue, which he called a “small price to pay” to help make Massachusetts more economically competitive.
But he said he did not have a plan to pay for those cuts.
“We can figure it out,” he demurred when questioned by reporters.
The Coakley campaign responded to Baker’s plan on Wednesday by declaring, “Charlie Baker’s math just doesn’t add up.”
“Charlie has proposed hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending and tax breaks without offering any new way to pay for them,” Coakley spokeswoman Bonnie McGilpin said in a statement. She also charged that the plan would primarily benefit the wealthy.
Coakley has released her own economic plan, focused on delivering $500 million over 10 years in funding for infrastructure improvements and grants to businesses and nonprofits. She is highlighting her proposals in a new television ad, titled “Plan.”
Baker unveiled his plans at a press conference with former Governor William F. Weld, Baker’s former boss, as well as several figures designed to showcase the Republican nominee’s support from urban Democrats and people of color.
The speakers included Karen Kaplan, the chairman and chief executive of Hill Holiday, the Boston advertising firm, who said she is a Democrat and longtime Baker supporter; Tim Rooke, a Democratic city councilor from Springfield, who also endorsed Republican Scott Brown over Democrat Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 US Senate race; and Nam Pham, the executive director of Viet AID, a Dorchester community development corporation, whom Baker hired in 1994 to work as the Weld administration’s liaison to immigrants.
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Baker, Weld and other speakers used the press conference to highlight what they called the extensive level of detail in Baker’s plans. Baker contrasted that with what he called the comparatively spartan focus on specifics in Coakley’s policy agenda.
“I like the weeds; most of you probably know that. Right, boss?” Baker said at the press conference, turning to Weld.
“True fact,” Weld replied.
Michael Levenson can be reached at mlevenson@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @mlevenson.