The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has set aside millions of dollars worth of tax credits for you if you choose to do so. However, fiscal conservatives have urged caution when it comes to the program.
As a member of the Massachusetts legislature, then-state senator Ben Downing took a trip to Israel in 2015, but he didn't pay for it.
Downing, a Democrat who lived in Pittsfield at the time, took a heavily subsidized trip to Israel from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, a pro-Israel group that lobbies on Beacon Hill.
