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…then why is there a strong change that Massachusetts might repeal their State income tax?

For one weekend this summer, Massachusetts enjoyed a sales-tax holiday. Instead of driving across the border to sales-tax-free New Hampshire, residents could shop at home without paying sales tax, if only temporarily. But the sales-tax holiday was just a precursor to what could be a much more hopeful development: the potential repeal of the state’s income tax this November.

Thanks to the tenacity of Carla Howell of the Committee for Small Government, voters may be able to eliminate Massachusetts’s income levy through Question 1 of a ballot referendum. In 2002, a similar ballot question asking for the repeal of the income tax earned 45 percent support. Today, with jobs and residents fleeing the economically limping Bay State, the political climate for eliminating the income tax is even more hospitable. Backers also hope that the repeal would force Massachusetts to practice tough fiscal discipline—the income tax constitutes more than 40 percent of state revenue.

If this passes it will be a signal that a conservative economic message can prevail everywhere…and thus no matter what the result on Tuesday, we conservatives are on the right path.