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...realistic, next week’s election looks bad for Lieutenant Governor Kerry M. Healey ’82. The Republican nominee for governor trailed Democrat Deval L. Patrick ’78 by 27 percent in a poll released last week, indicating that a Democrat might sit in the corner office of the State House for the first time since 1991. But as the end of the campaign draws near, Healey deserves another look and the opportunity to earn your vote. If elected, she will maintain balance in the state government and promote sound policies. While Patrick?...
...Healey has made it a priority to reverse that trend by attracting people and businesses alike. The only candidate to sign a “no new taxes” pledge, she has campaigned vigorously to reduce the state income tax to five percent. The voters supported such a rollback in 2000, but a recalcitrant legislature has refused to heed their will, even while the state enjoys a budget surplus. Although he has not specifically stated that he will raise taxes, Patrick has refused to sign the “no new taxes” pledge, leaving voters to suspect...
...Healey has also articulated a plan to work with companies to forgive loans for students entering high-demand fields, including engineering. And she will reduce the cost of housing by incentivizing re-zoning practices that would increase the stock of apartments and by working with banks to make down payments on houses less burdensome. Healey recognizes that recent graduates from Massachusetts colleges like Harvard will form the backbone of the state’s economy, and she is committed to making sure that they can afford to stay...
...radical and unwise policies are bound to ensue. The nagging opposition’s counterarguments and criticisms can be safely ignored, allowing the majority to adopt imprudent policies without thinking them through. Nowhere else in the nation is the need for balance more urgent than in Massachusetts. If Kerry Healey is not elected as a check against the legislature, we run the risk of becoming a literal one-party state, with the objections of a handful of prominent dissenters drowned out by the din of the majority...
...Commonwealth’s recent fiscal crisis serves as an excellent example of the importance of balance. Instead of endorsing the tax-and-spend mentality that led the state into debt, Governor W. Mitt Romney and Healey refused to raise taxes and balanced the budget each year by reducing waste and cutting excessive spending. In the fiscal year 2007 budget alone, the Governor cut almost $600 million from the legislature’s proposals to ensure that the state would not dip too much into its rainy day fund. Over the last four years, a $3 billion state deficit...