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CLT Commentary |
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CLT bills filed or supported for 2005 |
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Truth in budgeting |
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Legislative Ratings for the 2003-04 Session |
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Massachusetts House of Representatives |
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Massachusetts Senate Dodges debate on
Income Tax Rollback |
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Massachusetts House of Representatives Dodges debate on Income Tax Rollback Dems promise debate “two to three
weeks down the road” |
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Massachusetts House of Representatives Dodges
Income Tax Rollback, again |
| Dec 22, 2005 | Governor Romney's Thank You Letter to CLT |
| Dec 22, 2005 | Teachers union funding further exposed |
| Dec 12, 2005 | Teachers unions' corrupting power exposed |
| Dec 8, 2004 | CLT Celebrates Win for Governor, Taxpayers |
| Dec 7, 2005 | Hubris reigns upon L'il Mount Olympus |
| Dec 6, 2005 | It's official: Legislature repeals Retro Tax |
| Dec 2, 2005 | Retro Tax fallout - Reading between the lines |
| Dec 1, 2005 | Retro Tax scrapped today! |
| Dec 1, 2005 | Retro Tax fight continues behind the Beacon Hill scene |
| Nov 22, 2005 | "Institutional memory" or voters: which should be institutionalized? |
| Nov 19, 2005 | Joined by CLT members, Gov calls for fairness on retroactive cap gains tax |
| Nov 17, 2005 | Legislature almost went home for good ... then changed its mind |
| Nov 15, 2005 |
CLT Testimony -- supporting its bill to rollback the
state income tax
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| Nov 10, 2005 | Just how absurd will the Legislature become? |
| Nov 8, 2005 |
The Final Days (aka, "Strategic Chaos")
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| Nov 7, 2005 | Celebrating Proposition 2˝ continued, among attacks |
| Nov 4, 2005 | HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY PROPOSITION 2˝ ! |
| Nov 2, 2005 |
What part of "Illegal Aliens" don't they understand?
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| Nov 2, 2005 | What part of "Illegal Aliens" doesn't the AG understand? |
| Oct 27, 2005 | Former senate president calls for tax rollback as strategic chaos rules Beacon Hill |
| Oct 27, 2005 |
S2251 – Another bill to kill the initiative petition
process heads to the Senate floor
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| Oct 21, 2005 | "The Best Legislature Money Can Buy": Over the top, around the bend, and over the edge |
| Oct 19, 2005 | Unprecedented Beacon Hill activity masks latest unscrupulous tax rollback dodge |
| Oct 18, 2005 |
The Supplemental Budget and the Tax Rollback
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| Oct 16, 2005 | CLT's annual brunch -- Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Proposition 2˝ |
| Oct 15, 2005 | Next round of big spending planned as state coffers overflow, all over again |
| Oct 7, 2005 | "Don’t speak when you can nod, don’t nod when you can wink" and now, don’t vote when you can dodge |
| Oct 6, 2003 |
House again dodges vote on Republicans’ income tax
rollback amendment
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| Oct 6, 2005 |
The economy in numbers
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| Oct 6, 2005 | The Fat Cats can't decide . . . but we can! |
| Oct 4, 2005 | State revenue soars while pols still play games with voters' tax cut |
| Sep 29, 2005 | Tax exemption, tax expansion |
| Sep 19, 2005 | Can they stop just the lying, please? |
| Sep 13, 2005 | MTF Fat-Cats crusade for more as voters demand tax cut |
| Sep 12, 2005 | It's petition season again |
| Sep 8, 2005 | The problem has again been defined. Now what's the solution? |
| Sep 7, 2005 |
Hamill Commission report: If you can't dazzle them
with brilliance, baffle them . . .
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| Sep 7, 2005 | MTF wants to raise your taxes, again! |
| Aug 29, 2005 | "Hamill Commission II" attacks Prop 2˝ |
| Aug 29, 2005 |
Again to the "Hamill Commission" – Hands off voters'
Prop 2˝!
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| Aug 26, 2005 | As state revenue pours in, it's "wait-and-see" all over again |
| Aug 24, 2005 | “There is nothing new under the sun” - New “Hamill Commission” again to assault Prop 2˝? |
| Aug 16, 2005 | Catching up in the dog days |
| Aug 4, 2005 | Petition filing deadline passes |
| Jul 27, 2005 | It's time to relax: the Legislature is gone! |
| Jul 21, 2005 | We actually won one! |
| Jul 19, 2005 | Execution of the I&R steamrolls on |
| Jul 16, 2005 | Going for the kill of petitioning in Massachusetts |
| Jul 15, 2005 |
Another assault by the enemies of the petition process
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| Jul 7, 2005 | State's high-paid teachers still looking for more / more eminent domain decision fallout |
| Jun 29, 2005 | Initial fallout over Supremes' desecration of the Constitution and other matters |
| Jun 24, 2005 |
Property rights decimated by Supremes
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| Jun 24, 2005 | Highest court repeals citizens' property rights |
| Jun 22, 2005 |
CLT supports Romney health care plan
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| Jun 16, 2005 | Democrats in Legislature swing at strike three in capital gains fiasco |
| Jun 10, 2005 | Gov. Romney, CLT support capital gains tax fairness |
| Jun 10, 2005 |
CLT supports Governor Romney’s solution to the
2002 Legislature’s capital gains tax fiasco
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| Jun 10, 2005 | Lies, lying, and liars exposed |
| Jun 9, 2005 | WE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT NOW! |
| Jun 3, 2005 | Prop 2˝ override epidemic meets "fed up" taxpayers' immune system |
| May 26, 2005 | Taxpayers on hook for vicious cons' sex-changes -- what?!? |
| May 24, 2005 | Senate Democrats dodge tax rollback budget debate |
| May 24, 2005 |
Senate budget: the income tax rollback
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| May 20, 2005 |
Memo to the Massachusetts Senate Regarding the Tax Rollback
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| May 19, 2005 | On Bacon Hill, the spending spree begins anew! |
| May 17, 2005 | Bay State taxpayer's life: "poor, nasty, brutish, and short" |
| May 17, 2005 |
Memo to the Committee on Revenue Regarding Property
Taxes and Senior Citizens
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| May 13, 2005 |
A Curse on "Temporary" Taxation!
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| May 13, 2005 | Anyone buying another "temporary" tax hike? |
| May 7, 2005 | Battling tax rollback editorials continue |
| May 5, 2005 | Boston Globe column by Barbara Anderson: "Tax rollback would restore trust" |
| May 3, 2005 | IF NOT NOW, WHEN? Wrong as usual and despite $1B surplus, MTF still fights against rollback |
| May 1, 2005 | "Hit a pothole, thank a teacher" |
| Apr 28, 2005 | The Boston Globe's bankrupt integrity, and other treacheries |
| Apr 27, 2005 | MTF column is ammunition for tax-and-spend "TEAM" |
| Apr 26, 2005 | House Democrats again kill “temporary tax” rollback; “Another slap in the face” to 1.5 million voters |
| Apr 25, 2005 |
Memo to House of Representatives Regarding Today's
House Budget Debate
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| Apr 24, 2005 | The secret ticking time bomb: "public service" pensions, health insurance giveaways |
| Apr 21, 2005 | Progressive absurdity: the burden of Bay State taxpayers |
| Apr 15, 2005 | "We didn't need or want a tax cut -- but it's ours now!" |
| Apr 14, 2005 |
April 15th and the Massachusetts Tax Burden
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| Apr 8, 2005 | Gerald Amirault joins CLT staff for Prop 2˝ study |
| Apr 6. 2005 | Beacon Hill hearings begin; Widmer flaunts MTF's true agenda |
| Apr 5, 2005 |
Proposals for Legislative
Constitutional Amendments
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| Mar 22, 2005 | PAYT scheme trashed without a yellow plastic bag |
| Mar 14, 2005 | Forgotten intent of Prop 2˝ overrides: Emergencies |
| Mar 11, 2005 | Legislators fail to file taxes while AG stumps for tax "freeze" |
| Mar 10, 2005 | Prop 2˝ is scapegoat for municipal profligacy |
| Mar 8, 2005 | Taxpayers' employees, a class of their own |
| Mar 2, 2005 | The common denominator |
| Feb 24, 2005 | "Is it time yet for the state income tax cut we were promised ... in 1989?" |
| Feb 16, 2005 | SJC pulls rug from under tax-and-spenders' scheme |
| Feb 10, 2005 | Government's constant expansion of itself |
| Feb 9, 2005 | Too many Chiefs, not enough Indians |
| Feb 4, 2005 |
The National Taxpayers Union writes Governor Romney today
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| Jan 31, 2005 | Want to work another day for government? |
| Jan 27, 2005 | Gov's bigger budget: "Still not enough" |
| Jan 26, 2005 |
CLT congratulates Governor Romney for including long-overdue income tax rollback
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| Jan 25, 2005 | Property taxes skyrocket while Public Employees swim in salaries |
| Jan 18, 2005 | Tricks and treats |
| Jan 14, 2005 | "Massachusetts is back" but still the Gimme Lobby wants more |
| Jan 13, 2005 | Crises big and small |
| Jan 3, 2005 | Why the Bay State Diaspora? |
| Dec 30, 2004 | Out with the old, in with the new (Last 2004 Update) |
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