In his Feb. 8 op-ed “Patrick’s plan too ambitious for the times,” Scot Lehigh writes that Governor Patrick’s proposed tax plan “doesn’t reflect the tough choices that tight times require.” However, I would argue that the shortfall in tax revenue to fund necessary transportation infrastructure and maintenance and to adequately fund education is not the result of hard times but rather the result of more than 15 years of Republican governors cutting needed revenues.
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center shows the correlation between recent budget shortfalls and cuts in taxes and other revenue sources in the decade and a half before the first Patrick administration.
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FYI andrew, I like to keep my hard earned money, thanks anyways. If our dear governor would address fraud and waste I might consider giving him more of MY hard earned money, until then, NO WAY.
you people will NEVER figure out that there's never enough for these vultures to spend, NEVER.
Same old spew, the republicans and their tax cuts, you know, most of us like to keep our own money, for things like food, gas, clothing, mortgage payments, car payments.
If you want to give the government more money go right ahead, do you check off the higher rate on your tax return, something tells me NO.
Yea, lets go all the way and become california!
Does Andrew check the optional 5.85% rate when he files his taxes?
Andrew is beyond redemption; his comments bear not the slightest resemblance to reality. If his antidote to the effects of lowered taxes is unfettered taxation, we're just about there.
Utter nonsense. What tax cuts? My taxes have only gone up.
Andrew seems to forget the role the legislator plays in our process. Then again it is controlled by Democrats and being a sheepish Massachusetts voter his dear leaders can do no wrong.