Committee for Small Government

Two Massachusetts citizens, Carla Howell and Michael Cloud, and a handful of volunteers are organizing a petition drive to eliminate the state’s tax on income, capital gains, interest and dividends.

It’s conceivable that this tiny organization, the Committee for Small Government, may be writing the obituary of the big spenders in the Massachusetts Democratic Party. If successful, the consequences of its efforts will reverberate across the nation.

It sounds impossible, but don’t bet against this pair. A similar ballot initiative received a positive response from 45% of the electorate in 2002. And keep in mind that it was a word-of-mouth, grassroots effort without an ad campaign.

The local media and other liberals in Ted Kennedy Land initially wrote off the first effort as a joke. All were shocked to discover that 45% of the Massachusetts’ electorate was sick and tired of the rampart corruption; tired of the political gravy train; tired of supporting the lazy and the loony, leftwing programs.

The liberals in Massachusetts are inherently myopic and not very astute. It’s a state with essentially a one party system. Caution can be thrown to the wind in this atmosphere because no one in government is around to say no.

So once the 2002 initiative was defeated, the loony left controlling the budgets went right back to their insane spending practices. From the top to the bottom of the state, spending on entitlements and massive abuses within the retirement programs for political hacks reached a new zenith.

The current Governor, Duval Patrick, needs another 500 million for more worthy entitlements.

Perspective is important. From 1990 to 2007 the state’s population only increased about 8%. Much of this growth was due to the smorgasbord of entitlements that continue to encourage illegal aliens to hang their hats in this sanctuary of diversity, multi-culturalism and sumptuous handouts.

In the same period, 1990 to 2007, the spending of the state government more than doubled. That’s criminal! It gets worse. Not to be outdone, the majority of towns and cities followed the state’s example and doubled their budgets.

The 2008 edition of this tax revolt is against unbridled taxation and unbridled spending. The accumulation of spending outrages is about to cut the throats of the zany liberals whose appetite for revenues knows no bounds.

The Massachusetts electorate will revolt and deprive the state of 39% of its income. Are you ready for this? The state will have to survive (proportionally) on the same revenues required to run it in 1995.

Once the ballot passes, the games will begin. Rather than cutting the bureaucratic blubber off this government whale, the miscreants will cut the heart out of the police and fire departments. This will be done to spite the taxpayers. The school systems will disband sports, the arts and music rather than cutting through the maze of bureaucratic duplicity in the system.

This nastiness will crush the Democratic Party. And it could be coming to your state soon.