Word: clt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Support for the petition was high shortly after the primary last week, according to a poll by The Boston Globe which showed supporters of the CLT petition leading opponents by 16 percentage points. More recent polls, however, have shown that gap closing...
Silber counters that the CLT petition, which will appear as Question 3 on the November ballot, would be state-sponsored suicide, a move that would cut an estimated $2 billion in revenue from the Massachusetts budget. Supporters say Silber, now on leave as president of Boston University, can use his well-honed administrative skills to trim the $2 billion in a more gradual and humane...
...CLT petition was born from the same public anger that put Proposition 2 1/2 on the books almost a decade ago. Approved by almost 60 percent of voters in a 1980 referendum, Prop 2 1/2 set a limit on the amount of revenue a city or town can raise through property taxes and puts a cap on the annual property tax increase for that city or town...
...opponents of the CLT petition--among them many state legislators--say that with today's budget deficit, now estimated at anywhere from $700 million to $2 billion, the state cannot afford to lose the revenue Question 3 could take away...
...LoPresti said the legislature is currently hesitant about developing an alternative to the CLT petition, saying that lawmakers are waiting to see the results of the ballot referendum...