Word: clt
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Both candidates spent much of their allotted time discussing their positions on a comprehensive tax rollback referendum sponsored by Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT). The plan, which Weld supports and Silber opposes, would reduce the state's taxes to 1988 levels...
Although private universities like Harvard would not feel the CLT petition's bite quite as overwhelmingly as state-funded institutions would, they would be hurt nonetheless, according to Shattuck and officials from other schools...
Even in the best-case scenario, students would receive only 40 percent of the state financial aid now available if CLT passes, said Clare M. Cotton, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts. Cotton said that the cuts could be so severe that the state would have to eliminate all scholarship funds...
...have been told that if CLT passes, the likelihood will be that there would be no more state scholarship programs. That would affect quite a few Tufts students," said Rubel...
Segal noted that the CLT petition would likely result in further cuts in stateaid to cities and towns, funds which are now usedto pay for basic services like police and fireprotection...