“The
votes taken today to approve the Transportation Finance Bill over the
objections of Governor Patrick put us on an unsound path of increasing taxes by
hundreds of millions of dollars without first capturing promised savings from
reform, burdening motorists with fuel taxes that will increase without
legislative approval into perpetuity, and making a promising growth sector in
computer software services less competitive by singling it out for a new tax.
Clearly
our transportation systems need improvement, but the path chosen today
subordinates savings, reform and economic growth to the types of taxing and
spending solutions that have caused so many problems in the past.”
