This week I invite veteran acitivist and freedom fighter Carla Howell back on the Red Pill Politics show. Carla Howell is President of the Center For Small Government, a unique organization dedicated to shrinking the size, scope, authority, taxation and spending of today's Big Government by advocating and supporting candidates and initiatives that offer bold, compelling reductions in government. She has made her case for small government on hundreds of broadcast interviews and debates including TV appearances on CNN, Fox News, O'Reilly Factor, CSPAN, and with Neal Cavuto and Glenn Beck.

Carla Howell practices what she preaches. She currently heads the Alliance to Roll Back Taxes, a 2010 Massachusetts citizen initiative to cut the state sales tax from its new high rate of 6.25% to 3%.

This is Carla Howell's 3^rd Massachusetts ballot initiative tax cut campaign, which requires completing two very challenging signature drives to make the ballot. She has run a total of 9 statewide signature drives for ballot initiatives and candidates, with 100% success in making the ballot.

In 2002 and 2008 Carla Howell spearheaded ballot initiatives to End the Massachusetts Income Tax. Both campaigns put a jolt in the Big Government powers-that-be, nearly winning in 2002 with 45% of the vote. In 2008, the opposition was forced to spend $7 million to defeat the initiative, draining cash from Big Government campaign coffers. Both campaigns drew international media coverage. The 2008 End the Income Tax initiative won endorsements from the Wall Street Journal and Steve Forbes.

Carla Howell's small government campaigns demonstrate that bold tax cuts enjoy widespread, popular support, even in states like Massachusetts. Both End the Income Tax ballot initiatives won nearly a million votes in the face of overwhelming opposition from the Massachusetts media, special interests, and incumbent politicians.

Carla Howell ran on bold platforms to shrink Big Government as a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts is 2002 and in her run against Ted Kennedy for U.S. Senate in 2000. She ran for State Auditor in 1998 and won the endorsement of the Boston Herald. She has supported and consulted for numerous local, state and federal campaigns across the country since 1996.

Carla Howell is also a political songwriter. She released her spoof song  How Could I Live Without Filing Taxes in 2001, which has been played on over 50 radio stations across the United States. You can pick up a free copy for radio/TV broadcast or for personal use, or watch the video, here:

http://www.centerforsmallgovernment.com/taxsong.html

Prior to becoming politically active, Carla Howell worked for over 22 years in the private sector in engineering, marketing and management in the fields of high tech and health care. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science and an M.B.A. in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from Babson College.