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Many voters are worried about election integrity. We need to restore their faith that their vote is not being diluted by voter fraud. Same day registration would undermine voter integrity. There are numerous ways to register to vote and people should take this right seriously by registering by the deadline. Moreover, same day voter registration increases the workload of our city and town clerks and the election workers.
As a future parent, I want to leave our environment in better shape for the next generation. We need to encourage conservation by creating incentives rather than punishing hardworking taxpayers.
During my tenure on the Taunton City Council, we initiated for the first time ever green energy efforts. We are now using solar energy at several locations. We have also been cleaning our lake.
I believe in the carrot approach rather than the stick. We should establish tax incentives to go green rather than placing higher burdens on working families and seniors.
Once again, our city of Taunton has come up with innovative ways to help deal with the problem. We are using access land, creating tax incentives, and reducing regulations to help make housing more affordable. We also re-established the affordable housing trust which we use to help encourage and incentivize affordable housing.
The problem of affordability comes from not only the high costs of products to build, but also due to over regulations, government bureaucracy, and taxation. This is why I support limited taxation, smaller government, and reducing overburdening regulations. One way to alleviate the problem is to allow zoning rules to permit homeowners to add accessory rental units which will increase the stock of affordable units
The influx of immigrants into Massachusetts is costing taxpayers over $1 billion per year. Furthermore, our state is spending $64 per day per person on food for them. That’s more than you and I spend on our meals. Unfortunately, due to this influx, many seniors and veterans have been put on the waiting list for housing and local aid for our communities was not increased this year which increases our property tax burdens. Our taxpayer benefits should be limited to our legal residents. As the next Senator, I support amending the Right to Shelter law so it only applies to our legal residents.
Gov. Healey has created a Transportation Funding Task Force. I’m against any attempts to make drivers pay more. Our state spends 4 times the national average on road maintenance and 8 times the national average on administrative costs. We need an audit of the Department of Transportation to stop the wasteful spending. We have the funds. We need to use them wisely. In Taunton, we have paved 20% of our road over the past 4 years due to spend our dollars wisely. As the next Senator, I want to see the route 140-24 junction is dangerous situation and I want to see it finished as quickly as possible. Moreover, south coast rail was supposed to be running by now. It is time to get that project running with no more delays.
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It violates the 1st Amendment rights of the candidates by not providing them with a full list of voters prior to election day.
The most basic element of a free and fair election is equal access to all voters. By allowing people to vote without the candidates knowing their names and addresses in advance of election day denies equal access to all voters (as does early voting) thereby denying the candidates the opportunity to solicit them for their vote.
The MA State Senate should provide tax incentives to individuals and businesses that will increase recycling and use of renewable energy sources.
Housing is two things: 1) largely locally based and 2) a supply-and-demand commodity.
The MA State Senate should work to ensure a fair and transparent system of permitting at the local level and, as part of that, make all local building permit systems more involved with local residents to protect neighborhoods and small communities from being blindsided and overwhelmed by large development projects.
The MA State Senate should examine repeal or revision of the Right To Shelter Act.
By the same token it should examine the role the MA Office Housing and Livable Communities is interacting the US Federal government in regard to facilitating the transferring of illegal entrants from the faraway US Mexico border to local communities in Massachusetts.
Our network of emergency shelters should not be used by the US Federal government for temporary housing people who entered the US improperly.
With the arrival of commuter rail service to the South Coast we should be looking to increase commuting among the communities of Southern Bristol and Plymouth Counties rather than the current emphasis on transporting people to Boston.
The MA Dept. of Transportation should be looking at increasing the number of charging stations for electric personal vehicles as well.
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