MA Question 3 - Should we roll back the sales tax? A detailed analysis.
Time to get down and look at the details of the most important ballot question this November. Let us see why the Boston Herald endorsed this ballot initiative and why the National Taxpayer Union is featuring Question 3 on their 2010 ballot guide . Background Deval Patrick and Beacon Hill realized that they were looking at critical budget shortfalls and responded by raising several taxes upon the citizens of Massachusetts. One of which was to raise the sales tax from 5% to 6.25%. This move was especially hurtful in light of the failed Question 1 ballot initiative from 2008 which proposed to cut the MA Income Tax from 5.3% to 0. With power of 7 million dollars from the Teacher Unions the Question 1 initiative lost badly. Not only was the Obama wave a bad time for such a question, but the Center for Small Government was outspent by a magnitude of 35 to 1. An opportunity for MA citizens to have their taxes reduced outside of Beacon Hill rests largely on the shoulde