Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, the House approved a $368 million deficit reduction bill, which included state spending cuts and new, non-tax revenue initiatives. The House worked late into the night for a week adding amendments to the legislation and scrapping other provisions of the bill, including one that would have recovered $46 million from the soda and beer industry...
Both Bulger and House majority leader Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge) have called some form of new taxes inevitable if lawmakers want to solve the state's deficit problem, and Flaherty said an increase in at least one "broad-based" tax would be part of any package considered by the House...
Some of these broad-based taxes include the state sales tax, the capital gains tax, "sin" taxes on alcohol and cigarettes and taxes on gasoline, according to lawmakers and legislative aides...
...John said the tax package--which he said should go before the House late next week or the week after--would be difficult to pass in the current politcal atmosphere on Beacon Hill...
...order to get a tax bill through the House, you have to have a consensus," St. John said. "Now, there is none...