Summer 2000 F or years, economists have known that jobs and taxes are related.
Lower taxes help create new jobs.
You'd think so. There is the prospect of bringing about an expansion in the economy through an eminently affordable tax cut. But the skeptics among us will raise doubts, not only about the feasibility of this expansion, but also about its desirability. Skepticism springs from the fact that the Massachusetts economy, like the national economy, is already undergoing an unprecedented expansion. Since the last recession in 1991, the state has added 506,000 new jobs, with 67,900 of those coming since May 1999.