Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts is having trouble getting anything done, and we’re supposed to feel bad about that? The Times seems to think so:
Others say it is far too soon to judge the governor, and that in fact, he is changing the paradigm on Beacon Hill, where a string of Republican governors cut taxes and the Legislature, eager to shake the “Taxachusetts” cliché, often went along.
“He put on the table the presumption that we are going to need new revenue,” said Stephen Crosby, dean of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts, who served on Mr. Patrick’s transition team. “In that sense he changed the conversation totally from where it’s been for 16 years.”
“He put on the table the presumption that we are going to need new revenue,” said Stephen Crosby, dean of the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts, who served on Mr. Patrick’s transition team. “In that sense he changed the conversation totally from where it’s been for 16 years.”
Yes! It’s been too long that greedy citizens have been allowed to keep their cash! Time to subsidize The State and new curtains for Deval’s office!
