Works for Him!

Rep. Michael Rodrigues should not be criticized for going to New Hampshire and buying grandpa’s old cough medicine tax-free instead of paying Massachusetts’ recently hiked sales and alcohol tax (Sept. 2).

Bay Staters should be heeding his sound fiscal advice and doing the same.

But I do have a bone to pick with Rodrigues: If a man who voted for the tax hike is smart enough to go to New Hampshire to avoid it, how was he not smart enough to know others would do the same, thereby hurting the state’s economy?

- John Nothdurft, Legislative Specialist

Heartland Institute, Chicago

This letter to the editor was originally published in the Boston Herald.