It finally dawned on me that I ought to write some letters to the editor of various newspapers in the area.

Editor:

The beauty of Martha Coakley’s economic plan for Massachusetts is that it focuses on investing in enhancing the advantages that Massachusetts already has for attracting businesses to the state. Corporations want to come to Massachusetts for its educated work force. We also have concentrations of expertise in many fields of technology, health sciences, and research. Companies on the leading edges in these fields want to be located where there are centers of excellence in those fields.

What Charlie Baker refuses to acknowledge is that you don’t have to give away our precious tax revenue to companies to entice them to come here. He fails to recognize that we have advantages that companies are eager to get. His short sighted policies rob the state of the money it could use to enhance the value of Massachusetts as a place to do business. No wonder we seem to be unable to afford investments in education and infrastructure. People like Baker would rather give the money away to corporations that don’t need it rather than to spend it wisely on enhancing what attracts business to the state.

Charlie Baker’s policies end up driving away the very corporations we seek to attract, and these policies impoverish us at the same time.

It’s no wonder that Charlie Baker’s ads would rather have you believe that Martha Coakley has no economic plan for Massachusetts. If you didn’t believe his big lie, you might realize that the Coakley plan is outstanding compared to his tired old formula of giving tax cuts to the wealthy corporations.

Does this give anybody else any ideas?