Benson and Tsongas share a fondness for anti-corporate rhetoric and anti-business policies, and consistently vote to increase the role and power of government, particularly via taxation. Benson rails against “corporate special interests,” and has vilified local employer IBM, seemingly ignorant of the key role played by such corporations in sustaining local municipal budgets, employing thousands in our neighborhoods, and creating opportunity for our children. Tsongas supports the Obama/Pelosi/Reid line, including trillion-dollar deficits, government bailouts and takeovers, and “Obamacare,” which has already threatened existing health coverage for millions.
Harvard residents who prefer single-party rule to checks and balances, and who believe that local employers are a greater threat to their family’s financial health than is Beacon Hill, may want Jen Benson to continue as part of the Democrats’ 90 percent super majority. Harvard residents who wish that Nancy Pelosi lived in Still River, rather than San Francisco, may be happy to have Niki parroting Nancy, as a dutiful member of our state’s all-Democrat delegation to Washington.
Around the country and the world, however, people are realizing that the only sustainable path is that away from the creation of debt and toward the creation of value, away from big government and toward markets and individualism, away from tax-funded bailouts and handouts and toward responsibility. Now is the time for Harvard voters to choose that same path. Kurt Hayes and Jon Golnik will vote to reduce taxation, to support the businesses that employ and serve us, and to return power to the people. They will work to enable future generations to thrive, rather than being suffocated by our legacy of a crushing burden of debt and bloated government. I urge all residents to vote for Kurt Hayes and Jon Golnik on Nov. 2.
Bill Barton
Prospect Hill Road
