can you expect me to be in a 60 second ad? It’s an ad not a policy white paper.
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p>As for the song I didn’t know Governor Patrick used it in 2006. A restaurant company I worked for used it in a corporate video and I’ve liked it ever since.
Brad, we don’t have the money to fix the problem now. That’s why we’re kicking it down the road, until we do have the money to fix it. This is introductory economics.
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p>Unfortunately, any recent time we’ve had money to fix problems, we’ve also had Republican administrators that use that money as giveaways to the rich (either “tax relief” or “corporate tax incentives”) rather than fixing the problem.
You don’t fix over-spending by spending more money. Private businesses haven’t been able to create a net new government job in over 10 years. State government makes it too difficult to start a business and too expensive to hire a new employee.
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p>We need a clear, concise and cost effective regulatory scheme and a stable tax environment. (We have changed the business tax structure 7 times in the last 4 years.
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p>We don’t have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. Total state spending was roughly $52 billion last year. Spending on core programs has more than doubled since 2000 even though the population hasn’t increased significantly and inflation only accounts for about 30% of that increase.
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p>As tiresome as your class warfare argument is, it is equally untrue. As Senate President Therese Murray pointed out last year, “The governor is basically irrelevant to the budget process.”
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p>With control of 90% of the seats in the Legislature nothing budget related is passed without the Speaker’s and the President’s approval.
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p>The Democrat controlled Legislature over rode every single budget item veto proposed by Governor Romney. They have also overridden every budget item veto by Governor Patrick. The legislature is truly non-partisan in telling the Governor from either party “You don’t make the budget. We do.”
and sort of strange to use the same song the Governor used for his 2006 campaign.
can you expect me to be in a 60 second ad? It’s an ad not a policy white paper.
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p>As for the song I didn’t know Governor Patrick used it in 2006. A restaurant company I worked for used it in a corporate video and I’ve liked it ever since.
Brad, we don’t have the money to fix the problem now. That’s why we’re kicking it down the road, until we do have the money to fix it. This is introductory economics.
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p>Unfortunately, any recent time we’ve had money to fix problems, we’ve also had Republican administrators that use that money as giveaways to the rich (either “tax relief” or “corporate tax incentives”) rather than fixing the problem.
You don’t fix over-spending by spending more money. Private businesses haven’t been able to create a net new government job in over 10 years. State government makes it too difficult to start a business and too expensive to hire a new employee.
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p>We need a clear, concise and cost effective regulatory scheme and a stable tax environment. (We have changed the business tax structure 7 times in the last 4 years.
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p>We don’t have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. Total state spending was roughly $52 billion last year. Spending on core programs has more than doubled since 2000 even though the population hasn’t increased significantly and inflation only accounts for about 30% of that increase.
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p>As tiresome as your class warfare argument is, it is equally untrue. As Senate President Therese Murray pointed out last year, “The governor is basically irrelevant to the budget process.”
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p>With control of 90% of the seats in the Legislature nothing budget related is passed without the Speaker’s and the President’s approval.
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p>The Democrat controlled Legislature over rode every single budget item veto proposed by Governor Romney. They have also overridden every budget item veto by Governor Patrick. The legislature is truly non-partisan in telling the Governor from either party “You don’t make the budget. We do.”