NEWS RELEASE
Monday, February 4, 2002
"Those who fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it."
George Santayana
"Charging that lawmakers were spending wildly to
avoid further tax cuts, Citizens for Limited Taxation and Government's Barbara Anderson
predicted: 'Government will get bigger and bigger and there will be another fiscal crisis and
another tax increase.'"
The Boston Herald - Jul. 21, 1998
Money's no object as pols OK $19.6B budget
"Anti-tax activist Barbara Anderson criticized the growth in the budget.
"'If they want to do fiscal restraint, they should simply do fiscal restraint and come in with
a budget that does not exceed inflation,' she said.
"Anderson, however, lauded the (Cellucci-Swift)
tax cut proposal, saying, 'There is no way to restrain government spending unless you take the
money away.'"
Associated Press - Jan. 27, 1999
Birmingham calls Cellucci's budget plan "sleight of hand"
NEWS RELEASE
For years, the highly-respected, taxpayer-backed CLT has warned that the state was again spending at
an unsustainable rate; close to a billion additional dollars every year. When
the deficit bonds from the last fiscal crisis were paid off, we warned that the only way to prevent another crisis was to
head-off huge, tempting-to-spend surpluses with an income tax rate rollback; that it is easier to restrain than to cut.
Instead, the state budget doubled to $23 billion. At the urging of the activists who rally today to insist that
more is never enough, the Legislature has spent the state into another
"fiscal nightmare" and its only solution is the old standby: Raise taxes again!
We who have learned from history refuse to be doomed to higher taxes again by legislators who failed to
learn a thing.
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