A PROMISE TO KEEP: 5%
A Ballot Committee of
Citizens for Limited Taxation & Government
PO Box 408 * Peabody, MA 01960
Phone:(617) 248-0022 * E-Mail: cltg@cltg.org
Visit our web-page at: http://cltg.org
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*** Promise Update ***
Friday, February 27, 1998
Greetings activists and supporters:
The assault on truth by the revisionists of history in the Legislature continues. State Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham (D-Chelsea) -- who only months ago publicly admitted that the 1989 income tax increase was intended to be temporary -- seems to have been tutored well by his mentor and the architect of this "Big Lie," House Speaker Thomas F. Finneran.
Both apparently are convinced that if you repeat the "Big Lie" often enough it will come to be believed and they won’t have to return the almost-billion dollar tax surplus to its rightful owners, the taxpayers.
Alhough Gov. Paul Cellucci is heroically defending his (and our) proposed termination of the 1989 "temporary" tax hike [see Boston Herald report, below], keeping the promise, the Beacon Hill Revisionists just keep regurgitating their mantra of deception.
If there are still any out there who are not totally convinced beyond the inkling of any doubt that indeed the only way the 1989 tax hike could be passed was as "temporary"—as in fact you’ll see that it was—the mountain of evidence from the mouths of the very legislators who passed it is only a mouse-click away.
We have put up the CLT&G (April, 1997) collage of 1989 newspaper accounts of the "temporary" tax hike on our web-site for your downloading convenience. In these clips the operative word *every* *time* the increase is mentioned is *temporary.* [If you don’t have Adobe Acrobat Reader to read .pdf files, a link to a free download copy from Adobe is also provided at our site] Go get yourself a one-page multiple-admissions of truth in their own words! You can find it at:
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The Boston Herald
Friday, February 27, 1998
War of words over state income-tax cut escalates
By Ellen J. Silberman
The simmering battle over income tax cuts broke into full-fledged war yesterday as acting Gov. Paul Cellucci and Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham told each other to put up or shut up.
"The Legislature is obligated to cut the income tax," Cellucci said in a speech before the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. "This was supposed to be a temporary tax . . . The Democrats in the Legislature must honor their commitment to roll this tax back, or explain why they have reneged on their promise."
Birmingham (D-Chelsea), who opposes Celluci’s plan to drop the tax rate from 5.95 to 5 percent, quickly fired back.
"I’m not explaining anything," said Birmingham, adding that the Legislature already eliminated the temporary tax Cellucci referred to.
"The fact is, it was not a temporary tax," he said.
"Cellucci was a member of the Legislature then. It’s a profession of incompetence if he thinks it was" temporary.
"I’ve put up, and I won’t shut up," said Birmingham, who has proposed doubling the personal income tax exemption, rather than dropping the rate.
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Recall here that it was Birmingham and the Beacon Hill Cabal who just last April snuck through a law
raising the ceiling on the "rainy day" Stabilization Fund—which lowered the amount of your personal
exemption this year compared to the year prior, so they could hang on to a vastly greater amount of the
year’s almost-billion dollar revenue surplus.
First they reduce your personal exemption, then they propose to give it back to you—and you’re supposed to keel over in gratitude and buy their "Big Lie"!
How stupid a bunch of suckers does the Beacon Hill Cabal take us for!
Chip Ford—
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