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Well Massachusetts did a great job of reducing taxes and cutting the budget after the last recession in 2001. Unsurprisingly, they failed to raise taxes during our brief recovery and as a result, we're in a worse position during this economic crisis than we would have been, had taxes been brought back to dot-com bubble levels.

Check out Substantial Surpluses to Dangerous Deficits: A Look at State Fiscal Policies from 1998 to 2008 on the Mass Budget & Policy Center site for details. They do some great work.

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