3 Comments

• 1. Ed  |  July 9th, 2008 at 9:26 am

  I can’t wait for November so we can finally send a real message to those fat cat big spenders in Boston. I am voting to eliminate the income tax and the consequences be darned. All we keep seeing is spend, spend, spend. Maybe if they don’t have the money to spend we can finally see the state get out of our pockets.

  So, everyone go out in November and vote to REPEAL the income tax. Let’s finally show Boston who is in charge - AND IT IS NOT THEM!!!

• 2. john guthrie  |  July 14th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  Lets assume the initiative is successful. It then begs the question as to what monkey-dance the solons will do,like bottling it up in committee,or successive general assembly votes in favor,or comparing it to some mandate from the UN or some european magistrate’s decision. Pardon the sarcasm,but the stakes are high enough that something devious,as conducted by some activist,UNELECTED,judge,could be in the works !!

• 3. Chip Ford  |  July 14th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

  At some point the voters must reach critical mass and start refreshing the stagnant and unresponsive Legislature with new blood, new legislators who recognize they don’t have a lifetime lock on their seats. The more the current cabal keeps stiicking its fingers in their constituents’ eyes, giving them the Beacon Hill middle-finger salute, the sooner that critical mass will be reached.

  Some call voting for Question 1, repeal of the income tax, “sending a message,” but it’s not. It is creating a law — just as the Legislature does allegedly in our names.

  If voters want to “send a message” they need to throw at least some of the incumbents out of office, replace them with new faces — show that legislative seats are not a birthright.

  Now *THAT* is sending a message! Vote YES to create a new law by the people that repeals the income tax, then *SEND A MESSAGE*: Vote for anyone on the ballot who is challenging an incumbent tax-borrow-and spend legislator.