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Tea Party’s Fisher Would Be MA Gov.

March 18, 2014 By massmarrier 2 Comments

Small business owner, erstwhile unemployed guy, and self-identified MA Tea Party Republican Mark Fisher wants to be governor here. He spoke with me today about his vision of what government should and should not be about. On his campaign … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2014-election, elections, governor, health-care, income-tax, ma-gop, Mark Fisher, marriage-equality, massachusetts, sales-tax, same-sex-marriage, taxes, tea-party, turnpike

Helping to fix our infrastructure problems: my Globe op-ed

July 12, 2012 By Steve 12 Comments

Dear BMG'ers, I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed that appears in today's Boston Globe. It highlights our infrastructure and transportation crisis and offers an approach that will not only fund long-overdue investments, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democrats, economy, infrastructure, ma-gov, massachusetts, mbcr, mbta, sales-tax, small-business, steve-grossman, transportation

ACTION ALERT: Tell Your Legislators to VOTE NO on the Sales Tax Holiday

July 25, 2011 By Harmony Blakeway 6 Comments

[Cross-posted from ONEMassachusetts.org] Last Friday, the Legislative Leadership decided to stage the annual summer debate around a sales tax holiday. The bill, filed by Senator Hart, will be heard by the The Joint Committee on Economic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-priorities, massachusetts, revenue-policies, sales-tax, state-budget, taxes

Battle Lines: Massachusetts Taxes

June 19, 2009 By journalist-in-the-room 43 Comments

So, there's been a lot of outrage down here about some developments in the past couple of weeks. While the State Senate here was doing its debate on the budget, two crucial issues came up: freezing the corporate tax rate (excise) and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: income-tax, massachusetts, sales-tax, state-senate, taxes

Raise gas tax, not sales tax!!!

June 12, 2009 By dcsurfer 20 Comments

The revenue will pretty much come from the same people (us), but to the extent our share of the burden shifts, it would shift from people that don't drive much, and towards the people that drive too much.   And it would shift the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gas-tax, sales-tax

Preserving our commitment to education

April 29, 2009 By jason-lewis 36 Comments

You can read my views on ethics reform, here (PDF), on transportation reform here (PDF), and on pension reform here. But, even with comprehensive reforms and cost-savings, the impact of a FY10 budget without any new revenue would be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 31st-middlesex, education, jason-lewis, local-aid, sales-tax

Just so you know, the Mass House is broadcasting live again tonight, 4/28/09

April 28, 2009 By AmberPaw Leave a Comment

Here is the link again:  http://masslegislature.tv/?l=h... Consolidated amendments are flying down the shute - so far no surprises, though.  I believe $200 million was added to local aid from the anticipated revenues from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: local-aid, revenue, sales-tax, tax-hike, taxation

Influence how the House spends sales tax revenues?

April 28, 2009 By judy-meredith 6 Comments

The sales tax amendment offered by Rep Sciortino earmarks only .385 of the revenues to transportation (estimate:$250 million) out of an estimated $8 or 9 hundred million. For the next 3 or 4 days (and nights) the House will debate which of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: house-budget, sales-tax

Chickens on the Hill Clucking About Taxes

April 27, 2009 By massmarrier 4 Comments

Cross-post note: This appears at Marry in Massachusetts. For one example, look at our collapsing bridge and road infrastructure. Had the legislature raised the revenue decades ago and a decade ago to fix them, the solutions were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deleo, deval-patrick, gas-tax, income-tax, massachusetts, sales-tax, taxes

Tax free weekend: Are you buying?

August 16, 2008 By Jasiu 35 Comments

In need of some Spackle, I visited my local hardware store this week, only to find a few workers out front assembling snow blowers for display. "You can't be putting those out already," I pleaded. "Tax free weekend, brother," one employee … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: massachusetts, sales-tax

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BenDowningMABen Downing@BenDowningMA·
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Our leaders didn’t prepare us for the virus, or a shock like it, and that left all of us, but particularly the most vulnerable, exposed. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/06/nation/mass-surpasses-16000-deaths-due-covid-19/ #mapoli

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It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.

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Beautiful urban visions from @berkie1 !

Sure would help to have a robust, thriving public transit system to enable this.

Nathan Phillips@nathanpboston

Streets that put people first, not cars - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021/03/superblocks/ via @BostonGlobe

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DrEricDingEric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing·
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Let this sink in— 5,700,000 children will be lifted out of poverty soon by President Biden’s #COVID19 relief aid passed by Congress.

Zero Republicans (House/Senate) voted for it.

Only way we passed it that Democrats won 2 senate seats for a 50-50 tie & VP Harris made it 51-50. https://twitter.com/chrislu44/status/1366524803742597120

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This deserves a lot more attention

New analysis: 13.1 million fewer Americans would be in poverty after the passage of Biden's economic relief bill

Significantly, the child poverty rate would be cut in half. That's 5.7 million fewer kids in poverty https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/2021/presidential-policy/biden-economic-relief-proposal-poverty-impact?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210228&instance_id=27598&nl=the-morning®i_id=103545475&segment_id=52539&te=1&user_id=cd59d05eab07f3403b8db65ae0fa15b3

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jonfavsJon Favreau@jonfavs·
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“..it could become one of the most effective laws to fight poverty in a generation. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that the plan would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

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