RSSHopefuls for Kennedy seat spar on taxes, fees
From: The Washington Times | December 31, 2009
BOSTON | Republican Massachusetts state Sen. Scott Brown has repeatedly said he's opposed to higher taxes as he campaigns for the late Edward M. Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat. Higher fees are a different story. During his first year in office, then-Gov. Mitt Romney, a fellow Republican, proposed hundreds of millions in new and higher fees to help dig the state out of a $3 billion fiscal hole. Mr. Brown on Tuesday defended his support of those increases while he was a Massachusetts House member, saying fee increases aren't the same as broad-based taxes that touch nearly everyone. "There's a big ...
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