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...angered by the inefficiency of state government, Bay State voters seem in a mood to approve Question 2 on next Tuesday's ballot, a tax-cutting referendum popularly known as Proposition 2 1/2. Should they succumb to that temptation, however, they would be virtually extinguishing local government in the Commonwealth, trusting only to faint hopes for tax reform to save Massachusetts from disaster...
Talking to people is what got Rotenberg her position as college coordinator--and responsibility for 54 Commonwealth campuses. She was discovered at the start of the fall term in the crowd of pre-law and pre-political students who flocked to Government 154, "The American Presidency." A Carter campaigner who remembered her as an intern in the Vice President's office two years ago asked Rotenberg is she wanted to take charge of the President's effort at Harvard. At first she was uncertain, but when Rotenberg arrived at Carter headquarters in Boston, she ran into another co-worker, this...
...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...
...angered by the inefficiency of state government. Bay State voters seem in a mood to approve Question Two on next Tuesday's ballot, a taxcutting referendum popularly known as Proposition 2 1/2. Should they succumb to that temptation, however, they would be virtually extinguishing local government in the Commonwealth, trusting only to faint hopes for tax reform to save Massachusetts from disaster...
Unfortunately, this kind of weak policy process provides a far greater threat to the interests of the citizens of the Commonwealth than any self-interested mendacity could ever do. What is happening to DEQE in the process of making this decision will cause serious harm to the integrity of the agency. This would be a loss. John Grady Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College