Howie Carr: My Christmas wish is a gaping hole in the Massachusetts budget

All Massachusetts taxpayers want for Christmas is a cut in the state income tax rate from 5 to 4 percent — a 20 percent reduction.

In 2026, let’s start cutting the “tax” out of Taxachusetts!

But would the hackerama ever permit such a travesty?

Would the Democrat kleptocracy in this failed one-party state ever let hard-pressed Americans keep more of their own hard-earned money instead of having it stolen from them to keep the countless hordes of shiftless layabouts (many of whom are illegal aliens) living large on the dole?

Doesn’t seem very likely, does it?

But there is at least a proposed referendum question to cut the income tax here. And the supporters seem to have secured the necessary signatures to put it on the ballot next Nov. 3.

Sadly, there are so many sneaky back-door ways to stop it, all of which the local grifter class have used in the past.

Which is why I didn’t take this new tax-cut campaign seriously, at least until one of the more loathsome payroll patriots in the legislature angrily addressed the taxpayers’ revolt the other day.

At a State House hearing, Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, denounced the tax-cut ballot question and a related measure as “irresponsible.”

“These questions,” he thundered, “would only benefit high-end earners and would require either dramatic spending cuts or other tax increases in order to maintain the Commonwealth’s fiscal stability.”

Michlewitz, according to the state comptroller, has pocketed $193,532 from the taxpayers so far this year.

Then there’s his wife, Maria Michlewitz. She too slurps at the public trough, making $147,480 a year as “director of external affairs” at something called the Massachusetts School Building Authority.

Another nationwide search!

This is the only kind of fiscal stability that the hacks care about. Namely, their own phony-baloney, six-figure jobs.

Michlewitz represents the North End. He began his squalid career as a runner for one of the local wise guys, Suntan Sal DiMasi, who rose through the rackets to become speaker of the House.

As Speaker, Suntan Sal succeeded Thomas “Felon” Finneran, a convicted felon, who succeeded Good Time Charlie Flaherty, another convicted felon.

With Suntan Sal, the tradition continued. DiMasi’s federal Bureau of Prisons number was 27371-038. In 2016, he got a “compassionate release” from jail because he was “battling health issues.”

Of course he was! Just like another mobster named Zip Connolly, a Mob hitman from the Senate side of the building. He too was allegedly dying in prison, until he got cut loose… in 2021.

Zip, we were told, had less than a year to live. Almost five years later he’s still above ground, just like Aaron Michlewitz’s original street boss. At age 80, DiMasi’s fellow capos and unindicted co-conspirators have even allowed him to return to the life as a… lobbyist.

Professional courtesy.

This is the underworld that Michlewitz and the rest of his thug pals come out of, and will protect at all costs. It sure beats working for a living. Just ask Zip and Suntan Sal.

Those tens of thousands of signatures to put the tax cut question on the ballot have already been turned in. I’m sure the hack unions like the Mass Teachers Association will challenge them, if they haven’t already.

If the question somehow makes it to the ballot, stand by for a barrage from these same parties known and unknown to the grand jury. The nose-ring unions will spend whatever it takes to stop a pro-taxpayer question from passing.

They’ll “harvest” ballots like there’s no tomorrow — why do you suppose the Democrats are digging in on turning over the voter rolls to the feds for a clean-up? If necessary, the unions will buy however much paid media it takes to convince the state’s millions of low-info voters to cast a ballot against their own self-interests.

The hacks know it’s worth the investment. In 2022, the teachers’ unions spent $23 million to narrowly pass the graduated income tax (on a sixth try). For that one-time $23-million outlay, the greed-crazed Democrats have generated themselves more than a billion dollars a year extra to squander.

Forever. More than a billion extra a year, in perpetuity. Right out of the hides of people who, unlike themselves, work for a living.

You think the hacks won’t spend whatever it takes to stop tax relief? Regime-controlled media are already issuing early warnings about how $5 billion in cuts would “blow a hole” in the state budget.

Let’s hope so! I’m rooting for a gaping hole. I want the state budget gut shot, and then some.

What would happen if the Commonwealth suddenly had to survive on 10 percent less money? Try to imagine the carnage.

The Norfolk County District Attorney’s office might not have enough in its slush funds to try to frame any more innocent women for murders they didn’t commit.

Or to cover up the murder of other innocent women by their crooked-cop boyfriends by ruling them “suicides.”

UMass might have to reduce the salaries of a few hundred crack “administrators” from $300,000 a year to $275,000.

Gov. Maura Healey’s jilted elderly ex-gal pal that she appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court might not get an immediate pay raise from her current $226,187-a-year hack sinecure.

The state might be so strapped for money that it couldn’t afford to give Democrat fat cats any more scandalous $900-million kisses like they tried to do in the Plaza Gate scandal earlier this year.

What if the state was so broke it couldn’t hire any new transgender judges?

Or if it somehow lacked the money to continue food-stamp benefits for random Haitian criminals on Blue Hill Avenue who claim they’re indigent while ripping off $7 million in SNAP benefits handed out to ungrateful illegal aliens on welfare?

In a generation, we’ve gone from Make It in Massachusetts to Take It in Massachusetts. At least if you’re an illegal alien or a hack.

So this is our new year’s resolution for 2026: Let’s Cut the Tax out of Taxachusetts.

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