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NYT: Kerry protects loophole for wealthiest

June 19, 2010 By hubspoke 28 Comments

Well-informed BMG folks: is this claim in a 6/14 New York Times editorial as bad as it sounds?You heard right. Desperately needed unemployment benefits have been held hostage to a tax break for the rich, and the Senate's Democratic … [Read more...]

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Close the loopholes; raise revenues

November 9, 2009 By yawu 18 Comments

It was bad, but it could have been worse. Gov. Deval Patrick announced $352 million in cuts in response to a $600 million budget gap. Federal stimulus funds plugged the rest of the gap (see the Mass Budget and Policy Center's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-cuts, loopholes, taxes

GO Obama — Reform Overseas Tax Loopholes!

May 4, 2009 By liveandletlive 63 Comments

It's about time! Sure seems like we could use a lot of this tax revenue to help out our unbelievably under funded country. However, I'm sure there are many arguments as to why these corporate loopholes benefit America and why they should … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corporate-tax, loopholes, president-obama, scamming-the-system

Oh, THAT loophole!

April 24, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 33 Comments

Well, well, well, how that THAT get in here? Looks like there was an amendment in the House's loophole-closing tax bill that, well, blasts another enormous loophole open -- for companies that keep their business overseas. The provision … [Read more...]

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More DiMaze-ment: “What burden”, indeed?

January 23, 2008 By Charley on the MTA Leave a Comment

Just a post-script to my earlier post: Today I heard DiMasi on the radio, talking about what a bad idea it would be for us to close corporate tax loopholes due to the impending economic troubles: "What burden do we put on business during a … [Read more...]

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Deval deals with corporate loophole problem by cutting tax rates

December 19, 2007 By shirleykressel 20 Comments

Deval Patrick is going to address the corporate loophole problem by cutting corporate tax rates. What problem does that solve?   The one thing he started to do that we elected him for was to cut waste, fraud and abuse by closing … [Read more...]

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Budget, property taxes, and the bad vote

July 5, 2007 By Charley on the MTA 14 Comments

OK, holiday's over. It looks like we're pretty close to having a budget, and while the legislature deserves credit for encouraging the consolidation of health care and pension fund spending, their budget is going to include a lot more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget, festa, loopholes, massachusetts, mpa, patrick, property-tax, taxes

DiMasi King of the Hill?

May 21, 2007 By Charley on the MTA 12 Comments

The Globe's Lisa Wangsness has a big story on Sal DiMasi's supposed pre-eminence among the three Beacon Hill heavyweights, towering over Gov. Patrick and Senate Prez Murray.Waaaalll, maybe. First of all, I think the statute of limitations … [Read more...]

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Corporate Tax Avoidance in Massachusetts

May 20, 2007 By michael-forbes-wilcox 28 Comments

So far as I know, Wisconsin is the only state that discloses corporate tax return information. See this interesting analysis of taxes paid (or, not paid) by Wal-Mart in that state, and also nationally. In any case, Massachusetts does not … [Read more...]

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Close the loopholes! Speak out! (See you at the Convention?)

May 17, 2007 By michael-forbes-wilcox 17 Comments

As a member of the Executive Committee of PDM, I want to extend an invitation to BMGers to join us in soliciting expressions of support from Massachusetts businesses for the Governor's proposals. These Massachusetts-based businesses do not … [Read more...]

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
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This won't do at all.

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This is horrible

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/national-guard-troops-vacate-capitol-461220

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They did the same with Obama and the economy in January '09.

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Yesterday Hannity was ranting about how it’s awful that Biden hadn’t solved the COVID crisis yet, hours after he was inaugurated https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-attacks-president-biden-not-having-covid-pandemic-under-control

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amywesterveltAmy Westervelt@amywestervelt·
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My mother is very proud that I’m the one dropping an f bomb in this bitch. Seriously though, it’s time to widen the lens of climate accountability. Big Oil relies on enablers, and they shouldn’t escape scrutiny https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1352389540334481410

Bill McKibben@billmckibben

Ad agencies and PR agencies are renting themselves to the fossil fuel industry, supplying the creative juice necessary to wreck the planet. Please--do something different with your talents!

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brianr2600Brian RIstuccia@brianr2600·
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@BostonDotCom Seventeen speeding tickets, at least 7 wrecks, and 6 license suspensions. Why do we need to wait until someone dies before permanently revoking the license of a driver who has repeatedly demonstrated that they can't be trusted to operate an automobile safely? #mapoli #ZeroVision

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@bluemassgroup @BostonGlobe More details not behind a paywall:

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