The Life Sciences Bill is a poor tax policy proposal, even before the legislature gets its hands on it. The bill erodes the Sales & Use tax base, the Personal Income tax base, AND the Corporate Excise tax base. The credit … [Read more...]
Archives for May 22, 2008
Screw The Egg Shells: Hillary, You Blew the Race, Now Exit with Grace
So, we wait and hope she doesn't continue to try to undercut our standard bearer anymore than she already has. And yet she then goes and does exactly that, following him to Florida to do nothing but rub salt in the wounds of voters … [Read more...]
McCain On Veteran’s Benefit Bill: ‘ Better DEAD Than READ ‘
It seems that John McCain vitriolic response to Barack Obama's support of a strong veterans benefit bill in the US Senate which would support college benefits for returning veterans reveals not only McCain's seething and uncontrollable … [Read more...]
Race and Gender Diversions
1) The mortgage crisis The crisis in home foreclosure and subprime mortgages continues to plague families across the country and harm economic growth. The New York Times noted the damage on Monday: The housing bust is in the downward spiral … [Read more...]
We’re a Low Tax State :-)
The ever-excellent Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center reports: On May 16, the U.S. Census Bureau released its most recent state and local tax collection data for the US (FY 2006). Because this Census report incorporates both state and … [Read more...]
Harvard Says 6/50 Top Innovations in Government are Right Here
Creating Consensus for Balanced Growth Town of Barnstable, Massachusetts The Town of Barnstable restructured town government and established programs to increase citizen participation in order to implement creative smart growth strategies … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick Has Sold Out Migrants
What makes this an even harder pill to swallow is that Patrick is turning his back on a promise he made during his campaign. We will have in-state tuition for undocumented aliens when I am governor.Deval Patrick - WBZTV (4 April … [Read more...]
Sciortino reports disappearance of signature papers
Well, the rumor mill had a little something to it: There has been a signature problem: Medford - Rep. Carl Sciortino, D-Medford, announced today that he has filed suit in Suffolk County Superior Court seeking ballot access … [Read more...]
Obama near to needed delegate count; McCain aides flee the sinking ship
And, it's going to be easier than that, because there are about 100 delegates still to be elected (including 15 in OR, where the counting goes on to determine CD allocations). So, that means Obama needs only about 25% of all the unspoken … [Read more...]