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...slashing state funding by $343 million by the end of the fiscal year—is a product of a misguided refusal to even consider increasing the commonwealth’s taxes. The Massachusetts income tax, in the process of being further rolled back because of a ballot referendum adopted during more flush economic times, is an obvious target for generating needed revenue...
...past few months, Amherst College has been embroiled in an escalating debate over the value of diversity. Before a special referendum was held late last semester, the student government’s constitution contained a provision for “diversity senators” to serve in the student government. Conservative students objected to the notion of granting so-called diversity seats to groups that “feel their community’s voice has been silenced.” The parsing of diversity is all too often skin deep, and the conservatives at Amherst understood that these seats...
...chance Republican candidate Bradley H. Jones Jr. With the notable exceptions of the courageous representatives who voted to end Finneran’s tenure, the rank-and-file membership showed the same cowardice that has kept Finneran in office for three previous terms as speaker. When a referendum instructing representatives to vote against Finneran for speaker appeared on the ballot in 18 districts last year, all 18 passed it—but only three of those representatives voted against him. The fact that the other 15 representatives disregarded the express wish of their constituents is a testament to Finneran?...
...voting record on one question was particularly distressing. Massachusetts’ state-wide clean-elections referendum, Question 3, was in fact a straw man. Though it appeared that, as with most ballot initiatives, a “yes” vote would signify that one supported the goals of the measure’s sponsors, Question 3 was introduced and written by state legislators who were hoping for a “no” vote. To this end, these legislators framed the question in a highly manipulative manner...
...thoughtful enough even to retain the memory of one piece of propaganda’s message when they come across another a few minutes later, how can they be trusted with anything? These are, after all, the same people who almost passed Massachusetts’ Question 1, a binding referendum which would have eliminated all state income tax, for no apparent reason other than stinginess...