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Dec 16, 2013 Another Tax-on-Driving Proposal Even As Revenue Climbs
Dec 13, 2013 Bait-and-Switch Scam on Taxpayers Accomplished
Dec 5, 2013 Small Income Tax Cut Arrives
Dec 4, 2013 Threat of "Tax Fairness" Looms
Nov 24, 2013 Good, Great, and Bad News
Nov 8, 2013 Some welfare reform, maybe a little income tax cut
Nov 7, 2013 MEDIA SMACK DOWN: An Evening of Bombast, Film Clips & Commentary
Nov 6, 2013 Welfare Reform: Just DO it 
Oct 24, 2013 Forum with CATO's John Tanner
Oct 16, 2013 Cato Institute's Michael Tanner to Discuss "The Work vs. Welfare Tradeoff" — Oct 22)
Oct 8, 2013 Imagine Taxachusetts without Citizens for Limited Taxation?
Oct 7, 2013 Latest attack on Proposition 2½ 
Oct 6, 2013 Proposition 2½ again under assault!
Oct 4, 2013 Uh oh — "Tax Fairness" is on the horizon
Sep 26, 2013 "Ignorance of the law is no excuse"
Sep 19, 2013 With tech tax fading will replacement tax follow?
Sep 12, 2013 Oops — screwed up again . . .  "You just can't fool those lying eyes"
Sep 10, 2013 Read any good tax legislation lately? 
Aug 8, 2013 Tax repeal ballot questions are filed
Jul 29, 2013 Another tax hike just because they could
Jul 25, 2013 Bay State's first Perpetual Tax Hike adopted
Jul 24, 2013 Waving the Turnpike’s bloody shirt once again 
Jul 16, 2013 FY 2014 budget and tax increases 
Jul 14, 2013 A bad week for the Governor
Jul 10, 2013 Need a Savings Account? Sign up with EBT
Jul 1, 2013 Tax and budget decisions arrive at last
Jun 13, 2013 "Turning and turning in the widening gyre"
May 31, 2013 The state EBT Card Scandal expands
May 29, 2013 Barbara: Join me in expressing our outrage
May 24, 2013 Senate passes $34 billion state budget;
$1.5 billion increase over current budget — and no EBT Card reforms
May 17, 2013 Focus, despite 'overwhelming' distractions
May 14, 2013 CLT joins other groups demanding IRS accountability
Apr 24, 2013 Tax hikes and more spending are happening suddenly and quickly
Apr 24, 2013 Tax hikes, Sales Tax on computer services 
Apr 14, 2013 The Greater Boston Tea Party Rally — Photos and News Reports
Apr 11, 2013 The tax hike ball's now in the Senate — Act Now!
Apr 9, 2013 House Passes $500 Million Tax Hike
Apr 5, 2013 Bacon Hill Pols: Are They Suicidal?
Apr 5, 2013 Memo to the Legislature: No to New Taxes 
Apr 4, 2013 Join us at the Greater Boston Tea Party
Apr 3, 2013 How much more does government need to take from us?
Apr 2, 2013 Tax Freedom Day: Mass. 4th–Latest State in USA
Proposed tax hikes moving Bay State toward latest in the nation 
Mar 27, 2013 Chip Faulkner's After-Action Report: The Joint Committee on Revenue Hearing
Mar 25, 2013 Tax hikes: Which ones, by how much?
Mar 15, 2013 Manage money from previous tax hikes first (Boston Globe)
Mar 13, 2013 "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner"
Mar 12, 2013 Memo to the Legislature: The Tax Hike Circus Comes to Town
Mar 1, 2013 Massive tax hike testing nerves
Feb 14, 2013 Huge tax hike needed to fund Gov's malfeasance
Feb 6, 2013 Gov, clean out your cesspool — Not one dime more from us!
Feb 1, 2013 Taxpayers "getting hammered" by fraud
Jan 31, 2013 Sleight-of-Hand Taxation Continues
Jan 30, 2013 Deadline to file property tax assessment appeal: Friday, February 1
Jan 28, 2013 Gov's tax hikes, spending spree expands
Jan 24, 2013 Memo to the Legislature: The Ten Top Reasons not to support Governor Patrick’s Tax Package
Jan 20, 2012 Gov. Patrick is wrong, and CLT is right 
Jan 18, 2013 A reawakened state’s antitax movement
Jan 16, 2013 Governor’s State-of-the-State Address
Jan 15, 2013 The Takers are storming the gates!
Jan 15, 2013

Gov's Transportation Finance Scheme 

Jan 14, 2013 The insatiable hordes are swarming
Jan 5, 2013

Welcome to 2013: Out with the old; in with the same-old same-old

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