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0.5% for the Kids- We need to Make Overrides History

April 4, 2008 By bleicher

How about "0.5% for the Kids" so we can preserve our local communties.  If we increase the income tax 0.5% and hardwire the extra $1Billion for distribution on a per child per district basis so that all benefit, we can make it possible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chapter-70, education, governor-patrick, massachusetts, overrides, property-tax-relief, seniors, taxes

Property tax crisis looming

April 1, 2007 By David

Today's Globe has a must-read article on the dozens of upcoming Prop. 2-1/2 override votes whose sole purpose is to crank up local property taxes because local governments have no other way to pay for schools, teachers, and cops.Across the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ma, overrides, property-tax

The ship is sinking

March 14, 2007 By HeartlandDem

Back in the glory days of November 2006, I posted a little muse here[http://www.bluemassg...]that didn't catch a flicker of attention, probably because it was so BORING.  I had the luxury back then of thinking about little problems … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: education, local-aid, massachusetts, overrides

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