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Already emerging as one of the election’s central issue is taxation. Both property values and tax rates continued to increase in 2005, and the Boston Globe in January predicted the average Cambridge homeowner’s tax would rise by more then 10 percent this year...
Fourteen of the contenders debated tax policy Tuesday at a forum at the Cambridge Senior Center, with challengers claiming that climbing taxes are pricing Cantabrigians out of their own city to make way for wealthy condominium dwellers. The forum was sponsored by the Progressive Democrats of Cambridge, which endorsed seven candidates at the meeting...
Congress last week passed energy legislation costing $14.5 billion in tax credits and spending. Republicans hailed the bill for its free-market principles and support of less polluting energy sources. Democrats called it corporate welfare for the unclean and well-off fossil-fuel industries...
Basically it's a vast mosaic of tax breaks. Among the big winners: electric utilities (they'll save $3.1 billion over 10 years), the coal industry ($2.9 billion) and the oil-and-gas business ($2.7 billion). Consumers get tax credits for rooftop solar panels, $500 for home energy improvements and from $500 to $3,400 in credits for the purchase of hybrid gasoline-electric cars or other "cleaner" vehicles...
RICK SANTORUM, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, on why the White House is balking at releasing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' income tax returns...