Heritage Foundation gets a Mass. accent

from NewsLink, Vol. 4, No. 2, Winter 2000

 

When Governor A. Paul Cellucci delivered remarks on “Cutting taxes behind enemy lines” at a Heritage Foundation forum in February, two Suffolk University graduate students were in attendance. Erika Gulyas (left) and Krisztina Nagy (right), both Master of Science in Economic Policy students and Beacon Hill Institute interns, are spending the spring semester in Washington, D.C. at the Heritage Foundation. They were awarded internships by Heritage to conduct research at its Center for Data Analysis. They are helping the Center build an econometric model that will allow it to study the effects of proposed tax policy changes on individual income taxes.

In his remarks, Governor Cellucci noted, “The Beacon Hill Institute, which is working with the Heritage Foundation to evaluate state tax policy, has estimated that when our [proposed Massachusetts income tax cut to 5%] is fully implemented, it will help create upwards of 100,000 jobs and swell payrolls by over $3 billion.” BHI and the Heritage Foundation are strategic partners in combining BHI's State Tax Analysis Modeling Program (STAMP) with Heritage's federal and state tax analysis capabilities. Plans for 2000 call for STAMPs to be built for five states. In addition, BHI will continue to apply STAMP to tax policy issues in Massachusetts.

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