Sean Bielat, Republican candidate for the Massachusetts 4th District, is taking the offensive against Barney Frank, linking him to the unpopular Obama Health Care plan and potentially extensive damage to Massachusetts health care companies. On March 29, Bielat released a statement titled "Sean Bielat condemns Barney Frank's Assault on Massachusetts' Healthcare Companies."
Bielat hit at Frank for supporting a bill that will impose higher taxes on pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in the Bay State. According to Bielat, "Massachusetts leads the nation in biotechnology innovation" and while "[p]olls may tell Barney Frank and congressional Democrats that our state's pharmaceutical and medical device companies are an easy political target for tax increases," those taxes will lead to layoffs in the Bay State. According to Bielat, the new taxes will produce a cascading affect: layoffs by the taxed companies, foreclosures on laid-off employees' homes, small business failures from lost consumer liquidity, state revenue losses from the shrunken tax base and decreased sales, and, finally, government service rationing.
Bielat may be Republicans’ best hope of unseating Frank since his election -- a young, energetic outsider who can campaign in the Scott Brown mold and capitalize on popular disgust with Congress.
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