Massachusett's tax on the ultra-rich is in the news again, in two different ways. First, it's raised even more money than previously hoped: $2.2 billion, which has funded free school lunches and community colleges, among other things. Second -- and this, of course, has been given the bigger play -- a retired professional football coach and a couple of players, who have been paid many millions of dollars, have been publicly whining about the tax, demanding to know where in the Bible it says you have to pay it (um, Matthew 22:21, right?), and claiming that the New England Patriots cannot recruit players because other states don't have the same tax. You know what would take away the excuse for all the whining? If other states were to implement the same super-successful policy that Massachusetts has! Click here to ask your state legislators to do what Massachusetts has done. |
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