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...chomp) bullshit...Reagan (chomp) can only cite the record (chomp). You talk about hostages (chomp), they're still hostages (chomp)..." The smile gets larger as the daughter of the waitress at the Czech grill downtown mechanically answers that mom will vote for Reagan. "Those people are normally 95 per cent Democrats," he says when the girl leaves to buy saddle shoes with his daughter. His second chin waddles as he sifts through the desk for evidence. "Can't find it, but the poll they took out at the Community College--only five more votes for Carter than Reagan...
Ujhelyi figures that, in Lorain, he's just about seen it all. And he knows who's going to win. "Seventy-five per cent of the auto workers will vote for Carter." Long pause to let the tongue and teeth regroup. "We've got the edge on the Republicans because there's more of us than there are of them. It's not who's for you. It's how many." There are no windows in Ujhelyi's legal den, just a lot of pseudo-wood panelling and a deep red carpet. But Ujhelyi says he doesn't need...
...favorite statistics cited by the Citizens for Limited Taxation is that the Massachusetts legislature has faced nearly eight score tax reform measures since 1922, and has acted on none of them--not even one drafted by its own tax commission. The Commonwealth's property taxes are 70 per cent higher than the national average and still the legislature stands pat. It will take Proposition 2 1/2 to bluff the politicians on Beacon Hill into revising the tax structure...
...measure would gradually force the state's 351 cities and towns to lower property taxes by 15 per cent a year, to 2 1/2 per cent of market value. Not every city would be affected, but the average cut would be 41 per cent. Proposition 2 1/2 thereafter would prohibit raising property taxes more than 2 1/2 per cent yearly. Auto excise taxes would be cut about 60 per cent. Fiscal autonomy for school committees and binding arbitration for police and firefighters' unions would be abolished...
...city officials would prefer just that. Many communities are already finding it impossible to stay within the 4-per cent ceiling on local budget increases mandated by the state to reduce inflation; lowering that ceiling to 2 1/2 per cent and eliminating exemptions would decimate city services. Moreover, the tax cut would be weighted against renters. Older, poorer cities--which tend to have the highest property taxes--would suffer the most...