Scott Brown Fails the Massachusetts Middle Class

In a recent Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll, 46 percent of Massachusetts residents said the Bush era tax cuts should be extended only to the middle class (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/graphics/112110_economy_poll/).  Yesterday, Scott Brown sided with Mitch McConnell and voted with the Republican party, rather than the Massachusetts people, to prevent a Senate vote on the extension of the middle class cuts to the middle class.

In a recent letter to a constituent, Brown wrote he believes "that keeping the tax burden on individuals and families low is critical."  Does Brown believe it critical to keep the tax burden low for millionaires?

Brown writes on his Senate web site that he opposes "putting more debt on the government’s credit card and burdening our kids and grand kids with an outrageous level of debt" (http://scottbrown.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/keyissues).  Yet, according to the New York Times, the cost of extending the Bush era tax cuts to the wealthy will "add to the national debt the $700 billion cost of continuing the tax cuts on the highest incomes for the next decade" (Dec. 2, 2010).  How can Brown reconcile these positions?

The following link shows the impact on the middle class of Brown's insistence that the tax cuts be extended to the wealthy: 

What Else Would $60 Billion Buy? (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/weekinreview/05numbers.html?_r=1&ref=bush_tax_cuts)

Contact Scott  Brown and tell him to do the right thing for the Massachusetts middle class and oppose the extension of the Bush era tax cuts to the wealthy.


Brown's local office:  617-565-3170
Brown's Washington office:  202-224-4543