Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz said House Minority Leader Bradley H. Jones Jr. is misleading voters by saying such a plan would hurt taxpayers. She pointed to a Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation 2006 report that said it would raise revenue.
“This fiction has gone on long enough,” Chang-Diaz, a Boston Democrat, said in a statement. “Leader Jones knows—or should know, before opining publicly on an issue—that in-state tuition is a reform that would actually generate revenue for the state at a time when we desperately need it.”
