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State legislators on Beacon Hill have yet to agree on a tax package which would resolve the present budget impasse, making it unclear whether even the governor's recommended level of funding will be achieved...
...think the climate on Beacon Hill right now is very anti-tax and they're looking for more things to cut," says Langis. "I wouldn't be surprised if there are even more cuts made...
Although different lawmakers blame different people for a lack of initiative on the tax package, most on Beacon Hill seem to admit that some form of tax increase will be passed before the end of the fiscal year in late June. If not to save the state from this year's mammoth deficit, they say, new taxes are necessary to prevent an even worse situation next year...
...message of Peninsula can be distilled into two sentences, this is it: There are certain absolute moral truths that cannot be rationally discerned, but which must nevertheless be accepted on faith. These beliefs are not only the moral beacon for our personal behavior; they are universally applicable, and should be enforced by government decree, if necessary...
...Republican party was the real winner of this weekend's convention, showing Massachusetts that although it has been excluded from the center ring of Beacon Hill for two decades, it can still put on quite a circus show--elephants...