Want Lower Taxes? You've got 'em!

Submitted by Baer on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 2:48pm

One of the primary arguments I hear against an override is that we have to draw the line on every increasing taxes. Here is the simple math after 8 years of Republican administrations in Washington and Boston:

Our taxes are lower today than in 2000! If your family brings in $70,000 a year and you live in the average house in Amherst ($334,600 property value), your combined tax payments for property tax and federal and state income tax were actually over $600 lower in 2009 than they were in 2000!