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You didn't serious just call Healey conservative did you? LOL!
The "lowered" capital gains tax is still higher than most states. That very much proves she's not a conservative. People like you are hilarious. Rather than blaming people for doing EXACTLY what you knew they'd do, you blame people who are sucessful.
You'd rather have tons of discounts and write offs rather than not being over taxed in the first place, hilarious.
I wish people didn't downvote because it looks like I downvoted you, which I didn't.
Anyway, I most certainly did call her a conservative.
Going out of her way to push for lower taxes that no one is calling for, which overwhelmingly benefits the very wealthy is absolutely a conservative move. This spits in the face of voters who less than a year ago voted to increase taxes on these same people. The media drummed up her support for the millionaire's tax while completely downplaying her support of lowering other rich people's taxes. They let her always talk about the renter and child dependent deduction and gave no push back to the money gift wrapped to people who overwhelmingly wouldn't even know it's gone. Your bar for "success" isn't too high.
And a tax that she lowered still being higher than "most states" doesn't mean she isn't conservative. This is like saying Alabama can't be anti-abortion since they don't have an outright abortion ban like Texas does because they allow for abortion if the mother's physical health is at great risk. Whereas most reasonable people would say both of these are anti-abortion states.
You’d rather have tons of discounts and write offs rather than not being over taxed in the first place, hilarious.
You're saying this will cost Massachusetts very little or nothing?
Also, Massachusetts isn't overtaxed. We provide much better services to a wider range of people at more efficient costs than most other states.
Really welcoming community here Boston. Downvote to oblivion two of the three commenters on this thread. How the heck is this space less friendly than the comments section on the Globe’s web site?
So rich people get their capital gains tax cut and estate tax cut and seniors (also a wealthy demographic) get increased circuit breaker tax credits. Poor people get higher renters tax credits. People with kids get more credits. Commuters on public transit get to write off more of their bills. And the rest of us who don’t have kids, have no public transit to our jobs, and have a mortgage get nothing.
Remember when the renter’s tax deduction was justified by there being a large deduction in federal taxes by homeowners? After Trump, I don’t get that write off anymore and neither do most middle class people. But the renters still get theirs. We just keep getting screwed.
have a mortgage get nothing
You already have it pretty easy guy.
We just keep getting screwed.
Yes, it's the homeowners who keep getting screwed.