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...CLT representatives, however, say the cuts the petition would cause could be easily absorbed by the vastly inflated state budget...
...them run the state on $12.4 billion," said Chip Faulkner, an assistant director of CLT. "If they can't do that, something is drastically wrong...
...because much of the state's budget consists of entitlement programs whose funding is required by law, many of the cuts required by the CLT petition would concentrate on the state's most vital service programs, said Paul Watanabe, a public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston...
...CLT petition passes, these officials fear cuts will be made in the state's $2.8 billion local aid budget, causing some local government offices--already crippled by aid cuts in the last two years--to close down completely...
Cheimets said that while her staff is still compiling hard numbers on the effect the CLT petition will have on local aid, she believes local cuts could be as much as 20 to 25 percent, affecting the most basic services...