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Today, Massachusetts has the lowest unemployment rate of any industrial state—averaging 3.2 percent in 1982. This is the lowest in state history.
Since 1983, nearly 85,000 new businesses have been created.
About 400,000 new jobs have been added since 1983.
Real per capita income has risen an astonishing 75 percent in this decade—and in the last three years at a rate faster than in any other state.
After five tax cuts in four years, Massachusetts taxpayers now have a lower burden of taxes and fees, as a percentage of personal income, than the residents of most other states.
Governor Dukakis’s program to catch tax evaders has collected $1.3 billion from evaders and deliquents and another $1.7 billion in increased voluntary compliance with tax laws.
When the nation’s governors— Republicans as well as Democrats— were asked in 1986 to name the most effective Governor in the nation, they chose Michael Dukakis.
This is quite a different picture from the one you presented on Oct. 20. In the interest of balance and fairness I hope you’ll let Rappahannock readers read it.
DONALD KENT
Washington, Va. &
Chevy Chase, Md.
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