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After three hours of intense and at times impassioned public testimony, the City Council last night voted to support maintaining rent control in Cambridge...
...vote comes on the heels of the defeat of a state House bill yesterday that proposed the abolition of rent control in the Commonwealth. Twenty-one states currently have legislation outlawing rent control...
...council order, introduced by Councillor Jonathan S. Meyers, was passed to express the city's approval of rent control to the Cambridge representatives on the state's rent control committee. Although the state bill was shot down and cannot be proposed again this term, it can be reintroduced in the future...
...abolishing the Social Security tax and combining it under one 13% ((flat rate)) and allowing for a deduction for rent, charity or home mortgage, you're actually making it very progressive. And I'll give you an example. If you're in the lowest 20%, your income is $5,000, you pay 5.6%. If you're in the top 20%, your income is $76,000, you pay 10.8%. It's because the estimated value of your three deductions or your two deductions diminishes as a proportion of your income as you go up the income scale...
...deliver them to Andrews Air Force Base for the flight. Once in Britain, an Air Force van trundled the bikes to the chosen area and hung around while the Foleys biked. Estimated cost to the taxpayers: at least $500. Grumps an Air Force source: "Doesn't he know they rent bikes in England...