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Backers like the Citizens for Limited Taxation consider a proposal as bald-faced as Proposition 2 1/2 (Question 2 on the ballot) just about the only way to goad a legislature that has so long resisted change. If cities threaten a total loss of municipal services or bankruptcy, the state...
Under Proposition 2 1/2, city officials predict municipal services would resemble Hamburg's in 1945. City Manager James L. Sullivan estimates that Cambridge's property tax would be cut 60 per cent over six years and the city would lose one third of its annual budget. In the first year...
While other cities would probably not have to eviscerate their budgets, they would still face arterial cuts. One way to prevent municipal harakiri would be charging for services or transferring the services covered by property taxes to other assessments (Concord is considering increasing its water fees by $100,000)--thereby...
That many communities have come out in favor of the proposition is a signal of its appeal. But even its backers point to regressive and potentially dangerous flaws. The regressive-tax haters who designed Proposition 2 1/2 wanted to warn the legislature. But to many municipal officials, its passage represents...
In a way, the supporters of Proposition 2 1/2 are right when the term the dire forecasts of municipal leaders "scare tactics." People who aren't scared that cities like Cambridge could be without schools, without services, without police protection should support Proposition 2 1/2. The rest of us, who...