The Boston Herald: "Eliminating income tax is right idea"

excerpted from September 23, 2002 column by Cosmo Macera Jr.

Howell ... has the right idea.

The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which authorized a federal income tax in 1909, has become a scourge on individual economic freedom - affording cash-addicted congressmen incredible powers to seize the fruits of American labor. And it is no less onerous on the state level.

Howell's ballot question to eliminate the state income tax - and the campaign for governor she has built around it - shows more ideological courage than Republican Mitt Romney or Democrat Shannon O'Brien will probably ever have.

Howell commendably wears her principles like a football jersey: The income tax should be repealed, she says. No waffling. No hemming. No hawing. And she’s right.