I had a hard time grasping the gratitude concept. In the second place, the tax cut the Legislature gave us was a doubling of our personal exemption, which had to be adjusted for years of inflation just to recover its value. In the third place, I don't remember you, Mr. Representative, thanking me for the taxes I've been paying since I moved to Taxachusetts in 1971. Only New York and New Jersey's were higher. I think not.
Some taxpayers are grateful even without a refund.
New Hampshire, at present, has the lowest tax burden in the country, and some of us think it is a lot more civilized than we are. It will be a shame if we lose it because of the education issue, which education vouchers could address more easily than creating a new, big-government type tax. New Hampshire, with us as an example, has good reason to fear what it could become once this giant revenue source is available. As Massachusetts legislators continue to break their promise that our 1989 income tax increase would be temporary, the Governor of New Hampshire is keeping her word to oppose any state income tax at all. In Justice Holmes' 1905, keeping one's word was considered a necessary virtue for a civilized man.