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Here's What Carla Howell And Others Are Saying...
"The best way to stop home foreclosures and bankruptcies in Massachusetts is to end the state income tax. Getting back an average of $3,700 every year will allow thousands of families to pay their mortgages, pay their bills and pay off their debts." --Carla Howell, Chairwoman of the Committee For Small Government
"(There is) deep consternation in certain circles about another huge number that was rung up on Tuesday - 881,738, to be exact. That was the number of Massachusetts citizens who voted yes on Question 1, to abolish their state income taxes. Some people are scratching their heads, saying, what message was this mean-spirited 45 percent of the electorate trying to deliver to Beacon Hill? As one of the 881,738, I can answer that question. We meant to stop paying state income taxes. We desired to opt for the New Hampshire solution. We wanted a 5.3 percent pay raise." --Howie Carr, Boston Herald, November 2002
"The Massachusetts vote, officially dubbed 'Question One,' 'could be a model for the future' in many other states" --Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform
"OK. I mean, you should be canonized if you can pull this off in Massachusetts." --Glenn Beck, CNN
"Massachusetts is about the last place one would expect a tax revolt, but that's what's brewing in Beantown" --Wall Street Journal Editorial
"Eliminating the state income tax would reduce government spending by about $11 billion, shrinking the budget to its 1995 level. But that $11 billion would not be lost. It would be back in the private sector --back in the hands of the men and women who earned it, and who are far more likely to spend, invest, or donate it wisely than the bloated state bureaucracy it goes to now." --Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist
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Rally To End The Income Tax In Massachusetts On October 4th At Faneuil Hall at 1pm, doors open at 12pm
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n Saturday October 4th the Committee For Small Government will hold a rally at historic Faneuil Hall to support Ballot Question 1 to end the income tax in Massachusetts. When Ballot Question 1 passes the tax rate on January 1st 2009 will immediately drop to 2.65% and the following year Massachusetts will become the 10th state in the Union to have no personal income tax.
A group of over 10 speakers will share their thoughts about ending the income tax in Massachusetts and the benefits that will flow to families in the state.
When the Income Tax in Massachusetts ends:
- A family will save an average of $3,700 for each taxpayer. Money to keep, to spend for family, retirement, or charitible contributions.
- Elimination of the 5.3% income tax on wages.
- For those living on an annuity, there will no longer be a 5.3% income tax on interest or dividends.
- House, business, and stock sales, will no longer carry a 5.3-12% interest on capital gains.
Best of all, there will be $12 billion less that the state government can waste, misspend, hand out in pork-barrel projects, or use for Big Government Programs that fail and that make things worse.
Carla Howell On CNN With Glenn Beck
What Are the Benefits of Ending the Income Tax in Massachusetts?
Our Ballot Initiative will give back over $3,700 each to over 3,400,000 Massachusetts workers. $3,700 average. Each worker. Not just once. Every year. It will take $12 Billion out of the hands of Massachusetts Big Government – and put it back into the hands of the men and women who earned it. Not just once. Every year. A 27% cut in the $47.3 billion state budget. In productive, private hands this $12 Billion a year will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs in Massachusetts. This will force the state legislature to streamline and cut the waste out of the Massachusetts state budget. This will force the state legislature to get rid of the failed, flawed government programs that don't work – and often make things worse. It'll make the state legislature accountable to Massachusetts workers and taxpayers – instead of the government employees, lobbyists, and special interests who profit from high government spending. With less government and no income tax, Massachusetts will become a magnet to private, productive businesses and individuals. More good jobs and more good workers. Ending the income tax will spare millions of workers and taxpayers from the hardship of personal financial difficulties including credit card debt, school loans, unpayable bills. They will be able to meet their financial obligations and avoid home foreclosures and bankruptcy. By making the Mass. total tax burden more affordable, we allow more of our young people to stay in Massachusetts near their family, their friends, and their home.
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List of Guest Speakers
C ome to Faneuil Hall October 4th to help end the Income Tax in Massachussets and hear among the following guests, speaking on behalf of Question 1:
Michael Graham [bio]
Carla Howell [bio]
Kamal Jain [bio]
Matt Kinnaman [bio]
Keith C. McCormic [bio]
John Cunningham [bio]
Cynthia Stead [bio]
Chuck Ormsby [bio]
And More To Come...
Michael Graham
Michael Graham is a Talk Host for WTKK 96.9FM in Boston, a political activist , and a stand-up comedian.
Since 1998, Graham has been on the talk radio circuit, including stints in South Carolina and Washington, DC, as well as the internet-only outlet Rightalk.com. Since 2005, Graham airs a weekly guest slot on George Hook's drivetime show, The Right Hook on Ireland's Newstalk where his slot has proved popular with the show's regular listeners.
In 2002, Graham released his first printed book of original material, Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War through Warner Books.
Graham has appeared twice on Real Time with Bill Maher. In addition, he made a number of appearances during 2005 on The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Fox & Friends. Graham has also appeared as a panelist on the local Washington D.C. television program Eye on Washington.
In November 2005, Graham joined the lineup of Boston's WTKK; his show, dubbed "The Natural Truth," presently airs (originally from 3-7 pm EST, now at 9 am to 12 pm)
Carla Howell
Carla Howell campaigns to make government small. In 2002 she spearheaded a ballot initiative, along with Co-sponsor Michael Cloud, to END the Massachusetts state Income Tax.
It shocked the political establishment by winning 45% of the vote -- 8 to 20 points ahead of the polls.
Now she's calling for a rematch.
Her grass-roots, non-partisan committee collected over 123,500 signatures over two separate signature drives required by state law to put END the Income Tax back on the ballot for the November 2008 election.
In 2000 Carla Howell ran against Ted Kennedy for U.S. Senate and won 308,860 votes, almost beating the Republican candidate.
In 1998, she ran for Massachusetts State Auditor and received the endorsement of the Boston Herald.
Carla Howell is also a political songwriter. In 2001 she released her spoof song How Could I Live Without Filing Taxes
Prior to becoming politically active, Carla Howell worked in the private sector in engineering, management, and marketing in the fields of high tech and health care.
Carla Howell says, "Small government is POSSIBLE!"
Kamal Jain
Kamal Jain is a Massachusetts native who's been paying taxes since he
was 14 years old. He has performed volunteer disaster relief, community
activism, and search and rescue work, worked as an emergency medical
technician and security guard. Most of his career, however, has been
working in high-tech in a variety of roles, predominantly for start-up
companies.
Kamal has been a political activist since 1996, including past roles as
Executive Director and Chairman of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party,
more recently as Chairman of the Liberty League PAC and as a
spokesperson and analyst for the Committee For Small Government,
sponsors of ballot question 1.
Matt Kinnaman
Matt Kinnaman is a member of the Massachusetts Republican State
Committee, and Chairman of the Issues Committee of the Massachusetts
Republican Party.
He was a candidate for US Congress in 2002 and
Massachusetts State Senate in 2006. His "Getting it Right" column
appears weekly in print and online outlets.
He lives in Lee.
Keith McCormic
Keith McCormic is the Republican candidate for Massachusetts State Senate in the Hampshire & Franklin District challenging incumbent Democrat Stan Rosenberg. He is a computer science teacher and technology administrator at the New England Adolescent Research Institute (NEARI), a charitable special education school in Holyoke.
Keith McCormic works with at risk adolescents where he faces the brutal realities of government entitlement programs, educational interference, and unfunded mandates. He sees the dreadful suffering they cause today's children every day.
Born in central New England, Keith C. McCormic lived in Texas, Oklahoma, and Vermont before returning to his mother's ancestral home, the Pioneer Valley. Before graduating from Northampton High School in 1992, he was active in the Civil Air Patrol and the Boy Scouts.
Keith graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 2002.
John Cunningham
John Cunningham was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1955 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. As a small businessman, he owns and manages a web-based educational service and has also worked throughout the U.S. and Canada as a software consultant. John is a widower and has one son, who graduated from college in June, 2008. He currently resides in Revere, Massachusetts.
Cynthia Stead
Cynthia Stead is a weekly columnist for the Cape Cod Times and has worked for the government at the federal, state and local level. She has been directly involved in the formation Massachusetts state budgets.
Ms Stead is a longtime activist in political and conservative campaigns. She currently serves as Secretary of the Massachusetts Republican Party and represents the Cape and Islands on the State Committee.
Cynthia Stead is also a small business owner and former insurance agent.
Chuck Ormsby
Dr. Ormsby is a two-term member of the North Andover School Committee
where he sees first hand how taxpayer money is spent in Massachusetts
cities and towns, and in particular in public schools. Rare for school
committee members in Massachusetts these days, he's also co-founder of
his town's taxpayer-protection organization, the North Andover Taxpayers
Association.
Chuck Ormsby is also a columnist for the The Valley Patriot which he
co-founded in 2004. His columns in The Valley Patriot and his efforts
on the North Andover school committee consistently defend the property
rights of citizens against attacks by big government and the special interests.
Dr. Ormsby is also an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the University
of Massachusetts Lowell. He retired in 2003 after a 30-year career in
the national defense, national intelligence, and computer systems
engineering arenas.
Dr. Ormsby has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics
from MIT and a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University.
Make a Donation To Help End The Income Tax Now
M ake a generous contribution today and help end the Income Tax in Mass. You can make a donation by visiting the Small Government Act Donation Page. Make your donation now, because you can't afford not to end the State Income Tax.
Will the Real Mass. State Government Budget Please Stand Up
T hink you know what the Massachusetts State Government "budget" is? Think again.
Kamal Jain will take us on a brief, guided tour of the Massachusetts State Government "budget", including accounts of his long, painful journey in pursuit of the truth starting in the summer of 2008 and still going on today. Along the way, he came to some revelations he will share publicly for the first time at the rally.
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