Supporting Our State: Taxes Are Back on the Table

Posted April 22nd, 2009 by Harmony Blakeway

Boston community groups gathered today at the Massachusetts State House to tell their legislators:

“We need to raise new revenue to invest in our future and stop these cuts!”

Meanwhile, in the Boston Globe:

House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said yesterday that he is "open-minded" about raising the Massachusetts sales tax to help the state cope with a historic economic downturn, a sign that representatives will seriously entertain at least a one-cent hike in the sales tax in an upcoming budget debate.

"I'm open-minded towards it, as I am with the others," DeLeo told reporters yesterday, after being asked how he felt about increasing the sales tax.

...The House is scheduled to begin debating its budget Monday, a spending plan that is loaded with deep cuts that have drawn protests from social-service advocates, as well as unions. Business groups and state residents have said a recession is the wrong time to raise taxes. [Boston Globe]

Coverage of the public events on adequate, balanced tax revenues and the Virtual Rally:

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