CLT UPDATE
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Barbara Anderson endorses Charlie Baker for next
governor
One of the men running for
Massachusetts Governor is using tax day to
unveil his plan to cut taxes if elected. With
that, Charlie Baker got the endorsement of one
of the state's anti-tax leaders.
She is Massachusetts' anti tax crusader
Barbara Anderson, co-founder of "Citizens
for Limited Taxation."
She's been waiting for the opportunity to
endorse Republican Charlie Baker for Governor
ever since they worked together on proposition
2½, the 1980 ballot initiative that limited the
amount cities and towns can increase property
taxes.
Barbara Anderson: "Finally this year he is ready
to run and it couldn't be a better time. Because
this Commonwealth is in trouble. We have spent
ourselves into a serious fiscal crisis."
NECN
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Anti-tax group endorses Charlie
Baker for Mass. Governor
Republican candidate for
governor Charlie Baker and running mate Sen.
Richard Tisei, R-Wakefield, spent some of tax
day in Wakefield yesterday, picking up the
endorsement of Barbara Anderson, one of
the state’s most influential anti-tax
activists....
Anderson, a Marblehead resident and co-founder
of Citizens for Limited Taxation, worked
with Baker to get Proposition 2½, which limits
how much communities can collect in property
taxes, passed back in 1980.
She called Baker’s campaign a “longtime dream”
of hers.
“Finally this year he is ready to run and it
couldn’t come at a better time, because this
commonwealth is in trouble,” Anderson said.
Anderson said Baker was a better choice for
fiscal conservatives than Cahill.
“This is our best chance to have the best,”
Anderson said.
The Wakefield Observer
Friday, April 16, 2010
Baker, Tisei announce
Anderson endorsement
Republican gubernatorial
candidate Charlie Baker and his running mate,
state Sen. Richard Tisei, R-Wakefield, have set
the stage for what should be an interesting
debate in the coming months over the state's
taxing and spending policies....
Democratic legislators seem to get it. This
week, the House leadership unveiled a budget for
the next fiscal year that they emphasized
contained no provisions for new taxes. They've
opted to focus on the revenue that might be
gained by making casinos and slot machines
legal.
The Republicans, who on the same day received
the blessing of Citizens for Limited Taxation,
are clearly seeking to tap this
fed-up-with-taxes sentiment.
A Salem News editorial
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Taxes will be big issue this
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Barbara Anderson's CLT Commentary
Citizens for Limited
Taxation usually does something to note April 15, the deadline for
having to pay our federal and state income taxes. This year’s event was
a long-time dream come true for me. We shared a news conference on
Thursday in which I got to formally endorse my friend Charlie Baker for
governor of the commonwealth. Then he put his bumper sticker on Chip's
Blazer.
Charlie decided that
April 15th was the perfect date to introduce his “Day 1 Tax Relief
Act”, a bill he plans to file on his first day as governor. It would
repeal the recent sales and meals tax hikes and the new liquor tax,
and take the income tax rate back to 5% immediately.
As a member of CLT, he
supported the income tax rollback campaign in 2000, and is one of
the taxpayer votes that was dismissed by the Legislature in 2002.
Charlie has also been a longtime supporter of Proposition 2½ – he
worked for our ally the Mass. High Tech Council as media liaison
when Dukakis was trying to change our ballot law. So he was the
guest speaker at CLT’s 25th anniversary of Prop 2½ brunch in 2005 [see
invitation and bio],
where we gave him our coveted Warren T. Brookes award to reflect his
contributions to positive economic activity.
I have been looking
forward to Charlie becoming governor for many years: this I hope is
the year we begin to turn this commonwealth around.
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PRESS RELEASE
Friday, April 16, 2010
Baker and Tisei Announce Barbara Anderson’s
Endorsement
and Their Day 1 Tax Relief Act
WAKEFIELD, MA – Barbara
Anderson, executive director of Citizens for Limited
Taxation and Government, today endorsed Charlie Baker
and Richard Tisei for Governor and Lieutenant Governor
at a press conference to unveil the Baker/Tisei Day 1
Tax Relief Act.
“I’m confident that
Charlie and Richard will fight for the taxpayers of
Massachusetts, working to cut taxes and restoring fiscal
responsibility to Beacon Hill. This is the strong
leadership we need to regain our fiscal footing,
creating a favorable environment for taxpayers and
businesses to succeed and grow, in which government
starts to work for us,” said Anderson.
Baker and Tisei’s Day 1
Tax Relief Act comprises three bills they plan to file
with the Legislature on their first day as Governor and
Lt. Governor:
• Repeal Beacon
Hill’s Sales & Meals Tax Increase
• Repeal Beacon Hill’s New Liquor Tax
• Cut the Income Tax Back to 5%
“Families and businesses
have adjusted to current economic realities by making
tough budget cuts while Governor Patrick and Treasurer
Cahill have operated state government by a different set
of rules,” said Baker. “Rolling back the income and
sales tax to 5% will provide immediate relief to those
families and businesses burdened by Beacon Hill’s tax
increases.”
Tisei added, “The liquor
tax has adversely affected businesses here in
Massachusetts while border businesses have watched
former customers go to New Hampshire and Rhode Island
instead.”
In the last four years,
Patrick and Cahill have overseen a massive increase in
the size of state government – 20% in the first two
years of Patrick’s administration – while adding $2
billion more in taxes and fees. Anderson recognized
Baker and Tisei’s fiscal leadership and the need for
Massachusetts to rein in out-of-control spending.
Today’s announcement is
one of a host of policy solutions put forward by the
Baker-Tisei team and for more information please visit
www.charliebaker2010.com. |
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New England Cable News
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Anti-tax group endorses Charlie Baker for Mass. Governor
See video
(NECN: Alison King) - One of the men running for
Massachusetts Governor is using tax day to unveil his plan to cut taxes
if elected. With that, Charlie Baker got the endorsement of one of the
state's anti-tax leaders.
She is Massachusetts' anti tax crusader Barbara Anderson,
co-founder of "Citizens for Limited Taxation."
She's been waiting for the opportunity to endorse Republican Charlie
Baker for Governor ever since they worked together on proposition 2½,
the 1980 ballot initiative that limited the amount cities and towns can
increase property taxes.
Barbara Anderson: "Finally this year he is ready to run and it couldn't
be a better time. Because this Commonwealth is in trouble. We have spent
ourselves into a serious fiscal crisis."
And Baker says he's come up with a plan to get the state out of it.
Charlie Baker: "We're going to give the people back the tax structure
that, A They voted for, in the case of the income tax and B, back to the
tax structure that existed prior to the increases by Governor Patrick."
In the fight for the state's fiscally conservative voters, Barbara
Anderson is a key endorsement. And there are two other candidates in the
race, Republican Christy Mihos and Independent Tim Cahill, who would no
doubt have been happy to receive her support as well.
Mihos supports a rollback of the state sales tax to 1975's rate of
3-percent. Cahill says the state's health care reform is bankrupting
Massachusetts -- he would scrap the 2006 law while Baker defends it.
Both Cahill and Mihos attended Wednesday's Tea Party event on Boston
Common that featured Sarah Palin -- that drew several thousand of the
state's most ardent anti tax voters.
Baker says he was unable to go due to long scheduled campaign events --
not because he didn't want to associate with the tea party.
Just after the event - Baker helped Anderson put a new bumper sticker on
her car. The previous one had Baker's running mate, Richard Tisei's name
cut off - because Tisei had not supported Anderson when she tried to
rollback the income tax years back.
They've apparently patched things up.
Richard Tisei: If I could take back that vote I would - but I think I'm
pretty good on tax issues.
The Wakefield Observer
Friday, April 16, 2010
Baker, Tisei announce Anderson endorsement
By David Rogers
Wakefield — Republican candidate for governor Charlie Baker and running
mate Sen. Richard Tisei, R-Wakefield, spent some of tax day in Wakefield
yesterday, picking up the endorsement of Barbara Anderson, one of
the state’s most influential anti-tax activists.
Using the town’s post office as a backdrop, Baker announced he would
file legislation in his first day in office to reduce the state income
level to 5 percent and repeal recent increases to the state’s alcohol,
meals and sales tax rate.
“Families and businesses have adjusted to current economic realities by
making tough budget cuts while Gov. Patrick and Treasurer [Tim] Cahill
have operated state government by a different set of rules,” said Baker.
“Rolling back the income and sales tax to 5 percent will provide
immediate relief to those families and businesses burdened by Beacon
Hill’s tax increases,” Baker said.
Cahill is currently seeking the nomination for governor as an
independent.
Anderson, a Marblehead resident and co-founder of Citizens for
Limited Taxation, worked with Baker to get Proposition 2½, which
limits how much communities can collect in property taxes, passed back
in 1980.
She called Baker’s campaign a “longtime dream” of hers.
“Finally this year he is ready to run and it couldn’t come at a better
time, because this commonwealth is in trouble,” Anderson said.
Anderson said Baker was a better choice for fiscal conservatives than
Cahill.
“This is our best chance to have the best,” Anderson said.
Afterwards, Baker was pressed to explain why didn’t attend Wednesday’s
Tea Party rally at the Boston Common, an event that featured an
appearance by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and drew
about 5,000 people.
Baker said he was in Worcester that day, fulfilling a previous
commitment to a senior care organization that had asked him to speak at
its annual meeting months earlier.
“I was committed to that,” he said.
Baker added that he has attended three or four Tea Party events and that
he shared many of the same concerns brought up at those gatherings:
taxes, the deficit and jobs.
“It’s all about the pocketbook,” Baker said.
Baker was accompanied Sen. Tisei, the Senate minority leader, who once
drew the ire of Anderson when he wouldn’t support her efforts to roll
back the state income tax rate.
But fences seemed to have been mended. After the roughly 15-minute
event, Baker planted a Baker-Tisei bumper sticker onto Anderson’s car.
Anderson had previously sliced off Tisei’s name on an older bumper
sticker to express her disappointment for Tisei’s vote.
“If I could take back that vote, I would,” Tisei said.
The Salem News
Saturday, April 17, 2010
A Salem News editorial
Taxes will be big issue this election year
Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker and his running mate,
state Sen. Richard Tisei, R-Wakefield, have set the stage for what
should be an interesting debate in the coming months over the state's
taxing and spending policies.
At a campaign event held Thursday, the date tax returns are
traditionally due (many in Massachusetts have received a one-month
reprieve due to the March floods), they called for a rollback of last
year's increase in the sales and meals tax (it went from 5 percent to
6.25 percent), repeal of the new tax on alcoholic beverages, and a
reduction of the income-tax rate from the current 5.3 percent to 5
percent as mandated by voters in a 2000 referendum.
"Families and businesses have adjusted to current economic realities by
making tough budget cuts," Baker declared, while, according to the
campaign, state spending increased by 20 percent in the first two years
of Democrat Deval Patrick's administration, financed in part by $2
billion in increased taxes and fees.
You can expect Patrick, who is running for re-election, and state
Treasurer Tim Cahill, who will be on the ballot as an independent, to
have their own spin on things.
But whoever becomes governor in 2011 will face tough sledding should the
Legislature and incumbent governor fail to convince voters they are
serious about reducing costs at the state and local levels.
Because also on November's ballot will be initiatives calling for the
reduction of the sales tax to 3 percent, as well as one that would do
away with the new tax on alcoholic beverages. (Prior to last year, such
beverages, which are subject to other levies, were exempt from the sales
tax.) Angry voters could well decide to bring the hammer down by cutting
the state's sales-tax take by more than half.
Democratic legislators seem to get it. This week, the House leadership
unveiled a budget for the next fiscal year that they emphasized
contained no provisions for new taxes. They've opted to focus on the
revenue that might be gained by making casinos and slot machines legal.
The Republicans, who on the same day received the blessing of
Citizens for Limited Taxation, are clearly seeking to tap this
fed-up-with-taxes sentiment.
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