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SUPPORTERS of the CLT petition are fond of ignoring these costs, arguing that the lower tax rate will bring enough new business into the state to turn the economy around. Such arguments betray a sad lack of concern for the thousands of Massachusetts residents whose lives and livelihoods would be devastated by the referenum's passage...
Bulger is quick to deny these charges, oftenargung that the Senate president's power over hiscolleagues is vastly overrated. And his manysupporters in the state political establishmentare fond of remarking that without Bulger, theentire system might fall apart...
Democrats are fond of blaming Reaganomics for the fiscal debacle without acknowledging that they voted during the '80s to raise regressive Social Security payroll taxes 30% while preserving such loopholes as the tax exemption on inherited capital gains. That exemption alone costs the Treasury $5 billion a year and benefits mostly wealthy heirs. The fiscal prestidigitation has not abated: the Rostenkowski plan would have socked it to middle-income families by delaying inflation adjustments for a year. That step was needed because the House scrapped a 9 1/2 cents-a-gallon hike on gasoline that would not only raise...
...HAVE fond memories of snow. In second grade, I used to wake up several hours before the rest of the house to listen to Jim Scott's school closings on WKRC. During my first year, the first snowfall was greeted by a huge party in the Yard...
...bombardment of fact than in its eloquence. Was it the gravity of the event that inspired politicians, generals and common citizens alike to such memorable words? "It is well that war is so terrible," said Robert E. Lee during the Battle of Fredericksburg. "We should grow too fond of it." Abraham Lincoln was inspiring even in his black moods ("If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it," he said at one low point) and his caustic ones. "If General McClellan does not want to use the Army," he complained of his dithering military chief, "I would...