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YES on 3 at 54% in polls!

Sales tax rollback wins support of 54 percent in poll

Carla Howell Explains To WTKK’s Michael Graham Why YES on 3 is Voters’ MOST POWERFUL TOOL…

…for rolling back taxes and cutting government spending this November 2nd. To hear the interview, click on the play button to the right of “Sales Tax Roll Back”: http://www.969bostontalks.com/podcast/Episodes.aspx?PID=1468

Governor Patrick Pledges to Support People’s Choice to Roll Back Sales Tax to 3%

Perhaps Gov. Patrick’s campaign advisors have told him he better tell voters that, even if he doesn’t want to cut taxes, he won’t stand in their way. He just announced that he will uphold the will of the people if we vote YES on Question 3 to Roll Back the Sales Tax passes this November. [...]

Carla Howell debates Question 3 with Broadside host Jim Braude on New England Cable News

Watch the 7-minute debate between Carla Howell – for YES on 3 to Roll Back the Sales Tax to 3% – and NECN host of Broadside, Jim Braude, who opposes.

Emerging Controversy: Private-Sector Unemployment VS. Government-Sector Unemployment

Despite yelps and howls over alleged “painful cuts” in the government sector, government workers have been relatively unscathed by the current recession. Private sector workers have had to bear almost the entire brunt of job losses: Why Don’t Politicians Really Care About Unemployment? by Michael Cloud U.S. Unemployment: Private Sector VS. Government Sector by Edward [...]

Where will taxpayers and their families be forced to cut spending if we keep the sales tax at its new high of 6.25%?

Some want to know, “Where will we cut government spending if Question 3 passes?” We present many ideas at this web site for where to cut. But politicians, special interests and the media seem to care only about government. They want this to be the only question you ask. What about the other side of [...]

NECN covers Question #3 in light of Sales Tax Holiday

Via NECN: (NECN: Tom Langford – ) – Saturday is the start of a sales tax holiday in Massachusetts. Shoppers are expected to make millions of dollars in tax-free purchases this weekend The Massachusetts Retailers Association says stores are expected to see about five times the business of a normal August weekend, meaning hundreds of [...]

Jump Start the Massachusetts Economy and Create Jobs!

Vote Yes on 3 to Roll Back the Sales Tax to 3% 94,200 Massachusetts workers lost their jobs in 2009. What did Governor Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts state legislature do? They raised the sales tax from 5% to 6.25%. They added new taxes on alcohol, meals, hotels, satellite TV, and telephone poles. They raised [...]

Thanks John Kerry for “endorsing” Ballot Question 3, the sales tax roll back to 3%

Well, not exactly an endorsement. But as much help as we can expect the senator to lend Question 3, the ballot initiative to roll back the sales tax to 3%: John Kerry boat flap boon to tax ballot question

We’re Question #3

The Elections Division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has officially notified us that our Initiative to Roll Back the Sales Tax is Ballot Question 3 on the November 2, 2010 Ballot. Voting Yes on 3 will roll back the sales tax to 3%. Here’s the Argument In Favor we submitted for the [...]