Via Diane Ravitch, this post by Jeff Bryant lays out how the GOP tax bill will cripple public education, which is the crown jewel of Massachusetts' quality of life. Both the Senate and House bills propose an excise tax on private college … [Read more...]
Opaque Massachusetts budget process hides state’s real priorities
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) In a preview this week of the Fiscal 2018 state budget, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center points out a key shortcoming in the budget process. That process is not transparent, the … [Read more...]
Boston 2024 CEO says he’d vote “yes” on ballot question banning public funding for Olympics
Tuesday, the United Independent Party announced that it has officially partnered with Yes On 1, the organization that led the anti-gas tax initiative last year, to run a campaign for a ballot question that would protect taxpayers from the … [Read more...]
Dropping film tax credit to expand EITC is both progressive & populist… why aren’t Dems on board?
As Judy Meredith pointed out earlier this month, Governor Baker's proposal to kill the film tax credit and use the money to fund an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit is both a great idea, and would be very difficult to fight … [Read more...]
Fully Baked Baker Budget
With an ostensible liberal Democratic-controlled General Court, MA remains traditionally fiscally conservative. That's fertile ground for GOP Gov. Charlie Baker to plant his no-new taxes seeds. Thus, most of his first budget proposal likely … [Read more...]
Tea Party’s Fisher Would Be MA Gov.
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...]
Patrick’s Good Move
The future of Massachusetts depends on the decisions we make today. From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, Massachusetts cut taxes dramatically, leading to devastating cuts in transportation, human services, local aid for cities and towns, … [Read more...]
How Jobs Are Created in the USA
This is cross-posted from my blog, Green Lifestyle Consulting, where we have started a discussion list for green bloggers to contribute political posts. I am interested in what the readers of Blue Mass Group think about this article. I … [Read more...]
The G.O.P. and a Platform Built for the Past
To hear the pundits and political professionals talk about it, this election is all about turning out a party’s base. That’s because there are few if any undecided voters left and the only undecided voters that count are the ones residing … [Read more...]
Five things you won’t hear Scott Brown say (i.e. the truth) about his tax record
At a noon press conference in Randolph, Mass today, US Senator Scott Brown delivered what his office claimed would be a “major policy speech” on taxes. To the surprise of no one in Massachusetts, Brown’s remarks turned out to be nothing … [Read more...]
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