CLT 2003 Updates Index


Dec 31, 2003	Looking back, looking forward, looks the same, unless ...
Dec 26, 2003	Politics takes no holiday respite
Dec 19, 2003	They "can't fool all of the people all of the time"
Dec 17, 2003	Kriss hammered again for daring to speak the obvious
Dec 16, 2003	MTF now defends costly union monopoly
Dec 15, 2003	Revenue climbing, residents bailing out, Big Dig party spiked
Dec 5, 2003	Boston DNC Convention: Anatomy of an inevitable taxpayer mugging
Dec 1, 2003	MTF correctly ID'd by Springfield newspaper ... even if my mistake
Nov 28, 2003	"The Legislature really has no shame" nor does MTA
Nov 26, 2003	Thanksgiving: MTF exposed again
Nov 25, 2003	National teachers union investigated by IRS: Is MTA and MTF next?
Nov 19, 2003	"Best Legislature Money Can Buy" serves up our latest constitutional crisis
Nov 18, 2003	"Absolutely, positively guaranteed, under law"
Nov 15, 2003	"Winny" to the rescue, again!
Nov 13, 2003	Another "fee" ruled an illegal tax: Beacon Hill tax hike scam further exposed
Nov 10. 2003	Another "high hack holiday" fills the legislative void
Nov 5, 2003	CLT recommendations on the Senate's economic stimulus package
Nov 2, 2003	MTF: the definition incarnate of "narrow special interest"
Oct 29, 2003	MTF forced to out itself in desperation
Oct 28, 2003	S.1827, The People’s Income Tax Rate Rollback
Oct 26, 2003	Tax holiday proposed; but bogus tax hike study arrives
Oct 25, 2003	Halloween PC is real spooky
Oct 24, 2003	CLT's annual dinner a great success!
Oct 23, 2003	Vultures circling for the kill already
Oct 22, 2003	CLT awards "Tell the truth and shame the devil" award to Eric Kriss
Oct 22, 2003	MTF cheers on Olympic distance runner Romney
Oct 20, 2003	Romney: reformer or enabler?
Oct 18, 2003	Like Social Security, the societal balance of trade is shifting
Oct 14, 2003	Tax hike hearing, while pols cadge Sox tickets
Oct 9, 2003	Robin Hood revisited
Oct 8, 2003	Governor Romney’s veto of the Cambridge Graduated Property Tax Hike
Oct 6, 2003	State's profligate pension system busting the budget
Sep 23, 2003	Barbara Anderson to receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Sep 20, 2003	Our Sen. Kennedy again a national embarrassment: ABC News "fact check" devastates partisan charge
Sep 19, 2003	7th highest state pension debt - with MTF's help aiming for #1?
Sep 16, 2003	CLT quietly wins one with Romney
Sep 6, 2003	How bad is the state's pork barrel pension system?
Sep 5, 2003	"Aztlan" invades US - taxpayers fund its army Sen. Kerry News Release on BBA -
Aug 31, 2003	The Bacon Hill culture of entitlement
Aug 27, 2003	CLT looks into illegal fees
Aug 16, 2003	Beacon Hill Institute rates municipal voters' will to pay more taxes
Aug 7, 2003	Smokers stalked by tax headhunters; 11 petitions filed by deadline
Aug 5, 2003	CLT requests equal treatment in fundraising from OCPF
Jul 21, 2003	Summertime clean-up
Jul 20, 2003	"Life, liberty and property" are safe ... for a while!
Jul 19, 2003	Finneran's Fury proves power corrupts absolutely
Jul 18, 2003	Democracy won; Finneran zero
Jul 16, 2003	Can democracy return to Massachusetts?
Jul 15, 2003	In Mass. the more things remain the same, the worse they become
Jul 14, 2003	Finneran obfuscates, dissembles and lies on Keller program
Jul 12, 2003	Finneran or Democracy: which will reign supreme?
Jul 11, 2003	"'Fiscal crisis' ends" as Bacon Hill patronage defies vetoes
Jul 10, 2003	CLT battles to save democracy for future generations
Jul 9, 2003	CLT Memo to the Legislature - Finneran’s Pay-Raise Power-Grab
Jul 9, 2003	Finneran's imperial edict enforced
Jul 8, 2003	Finneran to make his power-grab move Joint CLT/Common Cause/CPPAX Memo to House Members
Jul 8, 2003	Proposition 2½ survives intact
Jul 7, 2003	Memo to legislators on veto overrides ... and a "delicious" life indeed
Jul 5, 2003	Teachers union's failing override strategy exposed
Jul 3, 2003	"What goes around comes around"
Jul 2, 2003	Finneran Power-Grab teetering at the precipice
Jul 1, 2003	Rampant hypocrisy revealed after Romney's budget vetoes
Jun 28, 2003	Finneran power-grab seeks to hire and fire, state rep admits
Jun 27, 2003	Democracy ... or "Finneran Rules"?
Jun 25, 2003	CLT recommends local budget savings
Jun 25, 2003	Finneran (More) Power Grab: end of representative democracy and balance of power
Jun 24, 2003	Mass. Teachers Association -- flushed down the toilet
Jun 22, 2003	Teachers union dogs tax hike, by any and all means
Jun 19, 2003	Budget slated to be finalized today / Seat belt law horror story
Jun 17, 2003	Gov to veto Finneran's power grab?
Jun 17, 2003	Memo to the Governor - Requested vetoes or send-backs
Jun 16, 2003	"When teacher's out" - by the Lawrence Eagle Tribune
Jun 16, 2003	Is Romney about to surrender his veto power?
Jun 13, 2003	Attack on Proposition 2½ ... Part 2
Jun 13, 2003	Press snoozed through Prop 2½ mugging
Jun 12, 2003	Threat to property taxpayers slinks on as media sleeps
Jun 11, 2003	Attack on Proposition 2½: Overlay Exclusion will increase property taxes ...
Jun 11, 2003	Proposition 2½ under increasing attack
Jun 11, 2003	Proposition 2½ and the Overlay Account attack: A Primer for the uninitiated
Jun 10, 2003	A Legislature out of control ... or is it? (and 3 CLT Memos)
Jun 9, 2003	New poll: "Only a third of voters favor tax increase"
Jun 8, 2003	Being right again, then and now
Jun 5, 2003	Overlay exclusion from Proposition 2½ - Enough already with the overrides
Jun 5, 2003	"Objective" polls and more new taxes
Jun 3, 2003	Court rules prescription "fee" a tax; kills it
Jun 1, 2003	Legislature's "outside sections" scam rolls on, and on ...
May 30, 2003	Celebrating two big wins ... and moving
May 29, 2003	Lightning strikes twice on mandatory seat belt law expansion
May 28, 2003	Fees and perennial safety nannies are back!
May 26, 2003	The misinformed, deceptive and greedy
May 26, 2003	Memo to Sen. Steven Panagiotakos charging him with false statements about CLT
May 23, 2003	Taxes disguised as "fees" get scrutiny
May 22, 2003	Senate budget, taxes disguised as "fees"
May 22, 2003	Fee-and-Spenders run wild on Bacon Hills
May 21, 2003	What's truly at stake in budget 'cuts' - A Boston Globe column by Barbara Anderson
May 19, 2003	Prop 2½ override pass/fail rates are only conjecture
May 18, 2003	CLT vs. Sen. Rosenberg: Battling op-eds
May 17, 2003	"Where would you cut?" Start with these Eagle-Tribune solutions
May 16, 2003	Revolution is in the air
May 14, 2003	Taxpayers continue sending a powerful message
May 10, 2003	House passes budget; supports business-as-usual
May 8, 2003	Big Prop 2½ overrides go down at polls
May 7, 2003	Borrowing the state out of debt is back on the table
May 5, 2003	Legislature plotting "dangerous strategy" for looming tax hikes?
May 3, 2003	Taxpayers finally win one
Apr 30, 2003	Talk-host legend Jerry Williams passes away / House votes on tax hikes today
Apr 27, 2003	Reform and respect: If not now, when?
Apr 26, 2003	"Tax hikes are back on table"
Apr 25, 2003	Just say no to "kick me again" tax-hike signs
Apr 24, 2003	CLT memo to House - Re: Ways & Means Committee budget
Apr 24, 2003	"No New Taxes" answers Boston Globe question
Apr 23, 2003	Beacon Hill 'Marching Season' arrives on schedule
Apr 22, 2003	Pioneer Institute News Release: "Pioneer Calls for Major Budget Reforms"
Apr 22, 2003	Mass. next-to-last in wait for Tax Freedom Day
Apr 22, 2003	1990 Citizens Liquidity Trust (CLT ) Bonds proposal (A Blast from the Past!)
Apr 21, 2003	Dem's/MTF's solution: Borrow the state out of debt?
Apr 19, 2003	Deceptive tax hike strategy further exposed
Apr 18, 2003	Easter Bunny next to support tax hike plot?
Apr 17, 2003	The only thing clear is their game plan
Apr 16, 2003	Proposed tax hikes are coming, as predicted!
Apr 14, 2003	CLT's first-in-nation "Tax Me More" fund a winner ... as they go
Apr 13, 2003	Predicted tax hike game plan solidifies
Apr 12, 2003	Tax hikes, pay raises, and Chip's response to the Globe
Apr 12, 2003	Communitarianism: A proven failure, by Chip Ford (response to a Boston Globe editorial)
Apr 11, 2003	Report on the Committee on Election Laws hearing
Apr 10, 2003	CLT memo to the Committee on Election Laws
Apr 10, 2003	Action needed now to save our right to the initiative petition process
Apr 10, 2003	Senate 362 – An attempt to kill the citizens initiative
Apr 9, 2003	Always being right is sometimes a curse
Apr 8, 2003	MTF's Widmer provides "personal opinion" to task force: Hike the sales tax by 20%!
Apr 7, 2003	CLT Memo to the House Revenue Task Force
Apr 7, 2003	MTF exposed, as tax opposition among public steady
Apr 4, 2003	War and fiscal crisis deflect attention from plot to kill initiative petition process
Apr 2, 2003	Schizophrenia: The official state disease?
Apr 1, 2003	Boston Globe, Gimme Lobby have misplaced priorities
Mar 30, 2003	Jill Stein's rich friends "aren't paying their fair share of taxes"
Mar 29, 2003	Tax hike strategy becomes clear
Mar 26, 2003	Who speaks for us?
Mar 24, 2003	Trying to make sense of the sales tax
Mar 22, 2003	What a week it's been
Mar 20, 2003	CLT’s Voluntary Income Tax Check-off ...
Mar 19, 2003	Hip-deep was time to stop
Mar 18, 2003	"Fees" exposed as taxes
Mar 17, 2003	Freedom for Gerry Amirault again denied
Mar 13, 2003	Finneran: "Stop me before we spend again!"
Mar 12, 2003	Das Kapitalists provide a Marx legacy
Mar 11, 2003	Is TEAM's lobbyist a lobbyist? Depends on what the definition of "is" is!
Mar 10, 2003	345-and-counting check-off voluntary tax
Mar 8, 2003	Fading mayors predictably fight last year's battle
Mar 6. 2003	The more things change, the more they remain the same ... only worse
Mar 5, 2003	Tax hikes, "fee" increases and the Blue Wall
Mar 3, 2003	Shocked, shocked - overspending created "fiscal crisis"!
Feb 28, 2003	Romney's budget: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Feb 27, 2003	Romney budget: Good news, bad news
Feb 26, 2003	Welcome "Common Sense for the Commonwealth"
Feb 25, 2003	"Overspending Crisis" has run its day
Feb 24, 2003	Fat Cat MTF decrees Romney plan doomed
Feb 23, 2003	Tax Everything And More sticks
Feb 20, 2003	TEAM would make Joey Bishop proud
Feb 17, 2003	MTF pushes sales tax hike on average taxpayers, exempts its Fat Cat members
Feb 15, 2003	Patronage rages on as tax hikes, borrowing are advanced
Feb 13, 2003	Making progress exposing MTF
Feb 11, 2003	"Where would you cut?" is the wrong question
Feb 10, 2003	Tax hikes? They'd better look over their shoulders first!
Feb 9, 2003	20 so far chose CLT's voluntary tax check-off
Feb 6, 2003	An old act revisited
Feb 5, 2003	CLT Memo to House Republicans - CLT News Release
Feb 5, 2003	MTF fires up Finneran's Tax Hike Express
Feb 4, 2003	As the deficit burns, Finneran diddles
Feb 3, 2003	Teachers union "sharing the pain" with tax hike call
Feb 2, 2003	Be careful what you wish for!
Jan 31, 2003	"Bodies and Blood" has returned!
Jan 30, 2003	CLT News Advisory & Update
Jan 26, 2003	CLT activists actively in the news
Jan 24, 2003	"Let those advocating return to conscription be first on the front lines," By Barbara Anderson
Jun 28, 1992	'The Draft' is a misguided program in a free society, by Chip Ford (A CLT Flashback)
Jan 24, 2003	Another tax increase and Campaign '04 begins
Jan 23, 2003	Another "blended approach" tax hike plotted
Jan 22, 2003	As exposed mayors whine, taxpayers say "no more!"
Jan 18, 2003	The fiscal fallout continues
Jan 17, 2003	The inevitable shake-out has finally arrived
Jan 15, 2003	"An embarrassment of riches" goes public
Jan 14, 2003	Finneran's letter to Gov. Romney re: 9C powers ...
Jan 14, 2003	CLT announces first joint Village Idiots Award: Reps. Binienda and Rogers
Jan 11, 2003	Mayors whine as Romney acts
Jan 10, 2003	On the pay raise, Boston Globe stands alone
Jan 9, 2003	House takes the money and runs, of course
Jan 8, 2003	"The Best Legislature Money Can Buy" hesitates
Jan 7, 2003	The Great Depression II pay grab
Jan 6, 2003	"An Embarrassment of Riches" has ended
Jan 5, 2003	It's time to "freeze" legislative salaries
Jan 4, 2002	Hold legislators' salaries harmless for now
Jan 2, 2003	We move ahead
Dec 30, 2002	My New Year's Resolution
Dec 28, 2002	Another pay raise -- enough's enough! (History of the Automatic Legislative Pay Raise)
Dec 27, 2002	CLT looking forward to 2003
Dec 26, 2002	"A middle-finger salute" to Beacon Hill
2002 Index	CLT Updates and Alerts! 2002 Archive