When Massachusetts residents cast their ballots for governor in November, they will probably face another decision in the voting booth - whether to lower the state sales tax rate from 6.25 percent to 3 percent.
It’s a question that is making those running for the state’s top political office nervous.Of the six declared candidates for governor, only one - Republican convenience store magnate Christy Mihos - has endorsed the question. The others say they favor lowering the sales tax, but preferably to 5 percent, not 3 percent.
*Yawn* Another "binding referendum" to lower taxes that the MA legislature will undoubtedly ignore. We went through this a few years ago - there was a referendum in 2000 that would have lowered the income tax rate from 5.75% to 5%, which was ignored by the MA legislature for two years, when they lowered it to 5.3%. After the people of MA overwhelmingly voted - on a binding referendum - to lower it to 5%.
There's simply nothing to indicate that MA pols have learned anything from the lessons of the past year, nor that they would give a hairy rat's patoot about what those prole voters want...
That is all.
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Of course they learned nothing, they keep getting elected.
They'll only learn if enough start losing their seats.
From West-coast version of Massachusetts to East-coast version of California: get with the program guys. Our sales tax is up to 10.75% in some counties (8.25% state, plus whatever local leeches want to slap on top of it)
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