From a Deval Patrick campaign press release headlined, “FIVE THINGS REPUBLICAN CHARLES BAKER WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT HIS RECORD ON PROPERTY TAXES.”
(Two things this press release does tell you about Patrick’s strategy: Label Baker a Republican as often as possible (three times in the press release), and call him Charles instead of Charlie (four times) to diminish that regular-guy image.)
Anyway, cut to #5, which isn’t actually about Republican Charles Baker’s record on property taxes, but is about Patrick’s.
For the first time in twenty years and amid a global economic recession, property tax increases under the Patrick-Murray administration went down three years in a row – from 4.2% in the first year of the term to 3.3% presently, representing a 22% decrease.
A 22% decrease in increases, for those of you keeping score at home.
That’s a helluva slogan: We’re taking less of more.
Lower your sights, folks. This race is already through the looking glass.
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Why not? It worked so well for Marsha.
Gee, the property taxes in my Massachusetts town went up. Did we get ceded to New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut or Rhode Island without anyone telling us?