Word: burdens
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...increasingly driven out of their homes because they can't afford to pay the taxes). Nor will Question 1 cut property taxes, as long as localities have come to depend on property taxes to finance the essential services like police, fire protection, and schools. The real answer to the burden of property taxes will only come when the state passes a graduated income tax and uses the proceeds to support local services now paid for by property taxes. But the 1975 referendum for an income tax not only lost, but was annihilated, by a margin...
Very simply, if Question 1 fails to pass, if 100 per cent valuation goes into effect, there would be a mammoth shift of the property tax burden from business to homeowners, on the order of $265 million. The shift would be felt hardest by the homeowners in older cities where there are great numbers of both lower-income housing and industrial properties. In Cambridge, for instance, the shift would amount to $8.6 million--and the average tax bill on a single-family home would jump from the present $1931 to over $3000. In Boston, the bill would increase from...
Breslow's burden is eased by her 45-hour-a-week housekeeper, who watches the children while both parents are at work. She and her husband, a professor at the Medical School, came up with this expensive solution to "the dual career problem" by making use of their two professional salaries. She and her husband also share equally in child-rearing tasks...
...burden on myself," Brown said. "All we were going to do was set up a straight-on field goal for Bosnic, so we were going to go off-tackle to Ralph. I lost my balance and tried to force the ball through, and as I tried to force it, he knocked it out of my grasp. It was a one-in-a-million play...
Several students and John B. Duff, president of the University of Lowell, criticized shifting the burden of paying loans from parents to students, a portion of the plan which Kennedy lauded...