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Carla A. Howell (born 1955) is an American political activist and small government advocate. She is President of the Center For Small Government. She is most known for organizing tax cut initiative petitions in Massachusetts (called ballot measures in other states). She started an initiative to repeal the Massachusetts state personal income tax in 2002 and again in 2008 and one to cut the state sales tax in 2010. She ran for office in Massachusetts for U.S. Senate (2000), Governor (2002), and State Auditor (1998) on the Libertarian Party ticket. In December 2011 she became executive director for the Libertarian National Committee.〔(Libertarian National Committee staff listing on national Libertarian Party website )〕 In 2010 she headed the Alliance to Roll Back Taxes, backing a ballot initiative to cut the Massachusetts sales tax from 6.25% to 3.0% which was on the November 2, 2010 ballot as Question 3. Her group collected and submitted 74,131 approved voter signatures in the fall of 2009, and another 14,023 signatures in the spring-summer of 2010 to qualify the measure. Howell released her spoof song ''How Could I Live Without Filing Taxes'' in 2001 which she wrote and performed. She earned her MBA from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts (1986) and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bethany College in Mathematics/Computer Science (1976). She worked at Datamedic, Clinical Information Advantages, Inc., Westinghouse Electric, Computervision Corporation, and Analog Devices, and consulted for numerous small and medium-sized businesses in Massachusetts.〔(''Carla Howell'' "about page" )〕 ==Petitions to repeal the Massachusetts State Personal Income Tax== (詳細は''Bankrate'' "current list of state income taxes" )〕 * 2002 Statewide Ballot Question 1.〔(''Massachusetts Secretary of state'' "2002 Ballot Question 1" )〕 In 2002, she sponsored an initiative petition to end the income tax in Massachusetts.〔(''Third Party Watch'' "Ending the Mass income taxes" )〕 This measure failed with 45% of the vote. * 2008 Statewide Ballot Question 1.〔(''Mass Secretary of State'' "2008 Ballot Question 1" )〕 In 2007, she, along with fellow co-chair Michael Cloud, re-formed the Committee For Small Government (the group behind the 2002 effort to end the income tax). The Committee obtained enough petition signatures to put the issue on the ballot.〔(''New York Times'' "Massachusetts Proposal Would Repeal Income Tax" )〕 The 2008 initiative differed from the 2002 initiative in that it provided a one year transition period with a tax rate of 2.65% before the tax rate would drop to zero. This measure failed with only 30% of the vote. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carla Howell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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