A PROMISE TO KEEP: 5%
A Ballot Committee of Citizens for Limited Taxation

 

The Eagle-Tribune
Lawrence, Mass.
Sunday, October 29, 2000

Where we stand on Bay State ballot questions
Here are our positions on the Massachusetts ballot questions:

Question 4:  State income tax rollback.  Yes

When the legislators in 1989 raised state income taxes to deal with a fiscal crisis, they promised the increase was temporary and the tax rate would be returned to its "permanent" level of 5 percent.

Since then, legislators have:

Denied they ever made a promise.

Admitted there was a promise but claimed it was made by a previous Legislature and so is not binding on them.

Admitted they made a promise but claimed it was kept through other tax-relief measures.

These are lies.

Rolling the income tax rate back to 5 percent in three steps will return to taxpayers, in a fair manner, about $1 billion of surplus revenues extracted from them.

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