Opinion
The Republicrat Convergence: State House Speaker Pledges "No New Taxes!"
What heartless conservatives would balance a $1.9 billion state budget shortfall by service cuts to the needy, without any effort to take back the tax favors so long showered upon the rich and well-connected? Was it the Tea Party extremists? The right-wing fringe of the Republican Party? No. “No new taxes” was this year’s pledge by Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo, leader of the dominant Democratic Party.
