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...resounding defeat a surprise then? Not to the opinion pollsters and referenda watchers who had pegged the grad tax as a loser...
Diane Kessler, a representative of the prograd tax alliance Massachusetts Coalition for Tax Reform, pointed out last Friday that in referenda voting, money talks. Her group raised $5,000, as opposed to the opposition's combined total of $140,000. One might assume that advertising against a tax bill cannot cause people to vote against a measure that would lower their taxes. But when one takes into account "the powerlessness, anger, frustration, and fear that people feel confronting any issue having to do with taxation, it's really not that surprising," Kessler said. "The opposition has played upon that fear...
...Duboff of Decision Research, Inc., the company that conducted the poll, pollees were asked if they agreed or disagreed with the following statement: "The graduated income tax is an additional tax." The pollees were divided equally in their responses. Duboff says there is always so much confusion about the referenda that "you just don't know how much knowledge is going to sift through before the election...
Massachusetts voters did approve two other proposals, both of which are non-binding referenda...
...SPRING OF 1971, the Faculty changed the method of selecting student members for the CRR in the hope of finding students to serve on it. But twice that spring in University-wide referenda, students voted to boycott the CRR, temporarily foiling the Faculty's attempt to lend legitimacy to the CRR through student participation. In 1973, there was an attempt to nominate students for the CRR from Leverett House, but that failed, leaving the boycott intact...