Word: dukakises
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BOSTON--One day before unveiling his new budget proposal, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis called yesterday for increasing state aid to cities and towns by $120 million in the coming fiscal year, if he gets the new taxes he is seeking.
"Clearly, our ability to finance this program of aid to cities and towns will depend on having the revenue," Dukakis said at a Statehouse press conference flanked by Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and other municipal officials.
Dukakis said the uncertainty about state finances may also delay the recent tradition of having the Legislature vote on a local aid resolution in late February to let cities and towns know how much aid they can count on before the municipal budgeting season begins.
State legislators maintain that federal fuel taxes should be used only to pay for roads and bridges, as they mostly are now, and not to cut the deficit. Besides, with taxes already ranging from Georgia's 7.5 cents per gal. to Wisconsin's 20.9 cents, state leaders are worried that...
In a hastily called Boston news conference, Dukakis revealed he would not seek an unprecedented fourth term and would instead concentrate on wiping out his state's $636 million budget deficit. Said a philosophical Dukakis: "There comes a time when you have to let go." His withdrawal fueled speculation that...