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While no plans to alter Prop 2 1/2 are on the table for immediate discussion, a number of suggestions are circulating through the State House...
...same leaders and experts who point to the disadvantages of Prop 2 1/2 and call for changes say that anti-tax sentiments in the state will make any type of modification politically difficult...
Cherished by Massachusetts property owners and guarded by anti-tax lobbies and legislators on Beacon Hill, Prop 2 1/2 is in no danger of dying soon...
...Prop 2 1/2 was approved during a nationwide tide of anti-tax sentiment, at a time when high property taxes were soaring even higher. In that political climate, many local governments were pegged as wasteful bureaucracies which overspent the revenue they collected...
Meanwhile small municipalities like Rockport and Manchester will struggle with Prop 2 1/2 overrides to come up with money the state cannot afford to give away anymore. And the tax limiting law will not be modified without lengthy and heated debate, says state Rep. Thomas M. Finneran (D-Boston...