A PROMISE TO KEEP: 5%
A Ballot Committee of
Citizens for Limited Taxation & Government
PO Box 408 * Peabody, MA 01960
Phone:(617) 248-0022 /(978) 538-3900 E-Mail: cltg@cltg.org
Visit our web-page at: http://cltg.org
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*** Promise Update ***
Wednesday, September 24, 1997

Calling All Activists!

"Now is the time to come to the aid of your countrymen"!

We’ve reserved 18 malls with the option of two more.

Yesterday I confirmed all reservations with the mall management. We’ve got 18 volunteer mall coordinators trying to organize their teams for this weekend. Mall petition packages and signs will be going out to all coordinators via Federal Express today, or delivered by Chip Faulkner tomorrow and Friday.

We are short of volunteers (at most malls) who can or will give up a few hours of their time this Saturday and/or Sunday.

If need be, our mall coordinators will stand alone at most of our tables—if we can’t find a few good men and women to pitch in and help them cut your taxes.

We’re especially shorthanded in Essex County, at the Square One, Liberty Tree and Northshore Malls.

We’re dropping the Hampshire Mall, as we were unable to find a coordinator in the Hadley/Hampshire County area—and if we can’t find volunteers in Berkshire County, will be dropping the Berkshire Mall in Lanesboro/Pittsfield, as well.

We’ll have to make our final decisions later today and notify the malls we drop, so if you can help out at any of the following malls—even for a few hours—over this weekend, please *immediately* call one of us at the following numbers:

(617) 248-0022 [Chip Faulkner]
(508/978) 538-3900 [Chip Ford]

Our coordinators ( ) are planning to be at the following malls this coming Saturday (11:00 AM - 6:00 PM) and Sunday (Noon - 5:00 PM)-- and need your help:

Auburn Mall - Auburn - (Desiree Awiszio)
Berkshire Mall - Lanesboro - (Peter Arlos)
Burlington Mall - Burlington - (Mike Conley)
Cape Cod Mall - Hyannis - (Dave McCoy)
Dedham Mall - Dedham - (Loretta Hayden)
Fairfield Mall - Chicopee - (Roy Schoonover)
Greendale Mall - Worcester - (Desiree Awiszio)
(Hampshire Mall - Hadley -?)
Hanover Mall - Hanover (Norm Paley)
Holyoke Mall (at Ingleside) - Holyoke - (Phil Bator)
Independence Mall - Kingston - (Norm Paley)
Liberty Tree Mall - Danvers - (Steve Epstein)
Natick Mall - Framingham/Natick - (Eli Israel)
Northshore Mall - Peabody - (Pat Warnock)
Searstown Mall - Leominster - (Muriel DeLisle)
Silver City Galleria - Taunton - (Ann Perry)
South Shore Plaza - Braintree - (Anne Hilbert)
Square One Mall - Saugus - (Rob Lamoureux)
Westgate Mall - Brockton - (Craig Pina)

*** WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP ! ***
Chip Ford—

The Boston Herald
Wednesday, September 24, 1997
Business Section (Pg. 35)
Reports praise tax cuts
By Bernard J. Wolfson

Bay State tax cutters were out in force yesterday, trumpeting the benefits of slashing the state’s take of salaries, wages and investment income.

Lexington-based Standard & Poor’s DRI released a report claiming that a pending bill to phase out the state’s 12 percent tax on investment income would create 28,000 new jobs and produce $2.4 billion in new personal income by the year 2007.

Suffolk University’s Beacon Hill Institute said a ballot initiative to cut the standard income tax from 5.95 percent to 5 percent by 2001 would create 105,281 new jobs and $4.9 billion in new wages and salaries.

But Jim St. George, executive director of the Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts, said that with both proposals there would be losers, not just winners. "You’re going to pay for it either with higher taxes somewhere else or with less services."

The proposed investment income tax phase-out would cost the state $260 million in lost revenue by 2003, according to the DRI report. The income tax cut to 5 percent would cost nearly $1.3 billion, according to the Beacon Hill Institute.

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