Massachusetts State Income Tax to be reduced to 5 percent

From Eric Dondero:

Meet the Republican ticket for Governor/Lt. Governor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 2010. Over the weekend the MA GOP met in convention, and Charles Baker and his running mate Richard Tisei won an overwhelming 89% of delegate support, thereby assuring no primary election will be held.

Baker is a former CEO of a Health Care provider. Tisei is the Senate Minority Leader, (in the extreme - out of 40 Senators only 5 of them are Republicans). He is also openly Gay, and is known for a hardline fiscally conservative, yet socially tolerant approach.

Upon winning the nomination the ticket made some news. Dedham Transcript:

The Baker campaign on Wednesday began promoting the Thursday’s announcement by Baker and Tisei of Citizens for Limited Taxation chief Barbara Anderson's endorsement and “Day 1 tax cut legislation.”

The Baker-Tisei campaign announced Thursday afternoon that, if elected, they will file on their first day in office legislation to repeal recently increased sales, alcohol and meals taxes and to reduce the income tax to 5 percent.

“The liquor tax has adversely affected businesses here in Massachusetts while border businesses have watched former customers go to New Hampshire and Rhode Island instead,” Tisei said in a press release with a Wakefield dateline.

Interestingly, Tisei is already drawing criticism from Democrat sources for being on the ticket. They say him running for Lt. Governor will take him away from his duties as Senate Minority leader.