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...will end up not in the pockets of low and middle income taxpayers but instead in the bulging wallets of corporate executives and stockholders. Residential property owners would receive only 57 per cent of the benefits of the tax cuts, with the balance going to industry. And in older, poorer cities like Cambridge, which largely depend on industry for their tax base, only 43 per cent of the total reductions would benefit residential homeowners...
...already finding it impossible to stay within the 4-per cent ceiling on local budget increases mandated by the state to reduce inflation; lowering that ceiling to 2 1/2 per cent and eliminating exemptions would decimate city services. Moreover, the tax cut would be weighted against renters. Older, poorer cities--which tend to have the highest property taxes--would suffer the most...
Kuttner criticized the present system, in which 70 per cent of the Commonwealth's revenues come from property taxes, as highly regressive. To generate enough revenue, poorer communities have to set higher tax rates because property taxes are lower, Kuttner said. The current tax system "punishes poor people for being poor," he added...
...Harvard/Radcliffe admissions application is a student asked his religious affiliation. How then is it possible for Klitgaard to use Jewish students in his report. Secondly, I strongly resent Klitgaard's implication that Third World students are more suited to a less competitive academic environment, and that students perform poorer than their aptitude scores indicate. I don't believe that Klitgaard included Harvard College in his findings for had he, he would have discovered the antithesis among many of the minority students here. Lastly, the dichotomy of students chosen by Klitgaard is a racist attempt to discredit the presence of Third...
...suburbanites settled in to split levels in New Jersey, Westchester, and Long Island, they left behind neighborhoods eventually inhabited by much poorer people. Falling rent forced landlords to neglect and then abandon buildings. Vandals ripped anything of value from the tenements or just torched them. Arson became a carefully planned and profitable activity as landlords burned their buildings to collect fire insurance, making the area charred and hollow...