Carla Howell

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Carla A. Howell (b. 1955) is President of the Center for Small Government. In 2002, she sponsored a ballot measure to end the income tax in Massachusetts. It was the boldest tax cut proposal ever placed on the ballot in United States history, yet it almost won with 45.3% of the vote in a state which has historically been in favor of governmental solutions. She was the Massachusetts Libertarian Party candidate in the race for U.S. Senate in 2000 won by Ted Kennedy and for Governor in 2002 in the race won by Mitt Romney. She received 11.9% of the vote (a total of 308,860 votes) in the U.S. Senate race, only 1% behind the Republican, making Howell's the most successful third party Senate race in America in 2000, according to Campaigns and Elections magazine. In 2004, Howell declined to run for President of the United States. In 2001, she released her spoof tax song which she composed and sang called How Could I Live Without Filing Taxes

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Carla Howell is a great-granddaughter of the Honorable William Eustis Russell, a Democrat elected Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a granddaughter of 1950s Boston Socialite Margaret Russell Howell.