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| Dec 28, 2017 | New surprises in a new year? |
| Dec 16, 2017 | A Taxing Weekend |
| Dec 13, 2017 | The many moving parts |
| Dec 4, 2017 | Scandal spoils Senate's long holiday vacation |
| Nov 28, 2017 | Please get your petition receipts to us immediately |
| Nov 9, 2017 | Beacon Hill greed has no limits, only getting worse |
| Nov 8, 2017 | Deadline Just Two Weeks Away |
| Nov 2, 2017 | Miami Beach in October |
| Oct 31, 2017 | CLT exposed The Takers latest scheme, again |
| Oct 26, 2017 | "It Tolls for Thee" |
| Oct 24, 2017 |
NO to S.1959 – More tolls on motorists
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| Oct 18, 2017 | Grad Tax would hike Mass. to 2nd-highest in U.S., 6th-highest in world |
| Oct 12, 2017 | Battling the Clueless — After-action reports on more seat belt laws, by Chip Faulkner and Chip Ford |
| Oct 10, 2017 | Insanity epidemic plagues Beacon Hill |
| Oct 4, 2017 | Grad Tax: Fight's On! |
| Sep 30, 2017 | Sales Tax Rollback Petitions Now Available |
| Sep 28, 2017 | Still not taxed enough? |
| Sep 16, 2017 | "The Best Legislature Money Can Buy" eases back into the job |
| Sep 9, 2017 | Grad Tax Opposition Campaign Comes Together |
| Sep 7, 2017 | Lights, Camera, Action! |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Over-and-Override wins by ONE vote |
| Aug 9, 2017 | Foolish hope springs eternal |
| Aug 2, 2017 | "Hope" is not a strategy, Gov. |
| Aug 1, 2017 |
"Summertime and legislators’ livin’ is easy" Chip Faulkner's latest after-action report — and Chip Ford's too |
| Jul 18, 2017 |
It’s Time to Roll Back the Sales Tax Hike
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| Jul 14, 2017 | New Report: How our heavy tax burden is being squandered |
| Jul 12, 2017 | Chip Faulkner's after-action report: The Joint Committee on Revenue |
| Jul 10, 2017 | Reducing profligate spending increases is not "cuts" |
| Jul 7, 2017 | Legislature passes $40.2B late budget in record time |
| Jul 1, 2017 | It's full circle again |
| Jun 25, 2017 | Boston Globe Debate: "Should Massachusetts lift the family cap on welfare benefits?" |
| Jun 24, 2017 | Chip Faulkner vs. Chris Matthews |
| Jun 22, 2017 | Grad Tax observations in the news |
| Jun 17, 2017 | Why the state never has enough money to squander more |
| Jun 15, 2017 | Sixth Grad Tax scheme headed to 2018 ballot |
| Jun 14, 2017 | Graduated Income Tax vote today |
| Jun 13, 2017 |
For the Sixth Time – NO to a Graduated
Income Tax
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| Jun 7, 2017 | Freezing Out the Taxpayers – Again |
| Jun 6, 2017 |
Testimony for Revenue Committee: Déjà vu
all over again
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| Jun 4, 2017 | "Fiscal crises" fuel tax hikes |
| May 26, 2017 | Senate budget concluded for holiday weekend |
| May 24, 2017 | Beacon Hill's Three-Ring-Circus Insanity |
| May 22, 2017 |
Memo to the Senate: The Senate FY18 Budget
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| May 19, 2017 | Senate budget insights |
| May 16, 2017 | Any "fiscal discipline" in the Senate Budget? |
| May 15, 2017 |
“Yes” on H-106, Out-of-State Cash Assistance
Limits
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| May 12, 2017 | "Groundhog Day" on Beacon Hill |
| May 5, 2017 | Surprise, surprise ... another "fiscal crisis out of nowhere" |
| May 4, 2017 |
Tax Freedom Day in Mass. arrives tomorrow — 12
days late
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| May 1, 2017 |
Note to Gov. Baker for Barbara Anderson goes
unanswered
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| Apr 26, 2017 | From spending hike to diaper subsidies |
| Apr 25, 2017 | Income tax hike withdrawn in Three-Ring House Circus |
| Apr 23, 2017 |
Memo to House: No more tax hikes: Just
keep your promise
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| Apr 20, 2017 | Tax amendments added to House budget |
| Apr 14, 2017 | Spring tax hikes talk is blooming on Beacon Hill |
| Apr 8, 2017 | Voluntarily Pay More Taxes? Few In Mass. Opt For Higher Rate |
| Apr 5, 2017 | Beacon Hill is waking up, to more taxes of course |
| Mar 29, 2017 | Sen. Chandler gorges, licks the plate, belches on taxpayers |
| Mar 18, 2017 | "The Ticking Time Bomb" makes Mass. #1 |
| Mar 14, 2017 | Stop the false "expectations" game |
| Mar 7, 2017 | Autopsy of the obscene Legislators' pay grab |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Tax hikes: "a death by a thousand cuts"? |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Proven again: Too much spending, not lack of revenue problem |
| Feb 17, 2017 | DeLeo reverses — tax hikes again "off the table" |
| Feb 14, 2017 | A tax hike on us to fund the pols' obscene pay grab? |
| Feb 6, 2017 | Follow-up on Legislature's obscene pay grab |
| Feb 3, 2017 | Pigs at the trough stampede over taxpayers |
| Feb 2, 2017 | Override Day on Beacon Hill of Greed |
| Jan 31, 2017 |
Gov says call your legislators now |
| Jan 30, 2017 |
"You will never get a second chance to make a
first impression."
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| Jan 29, 2017 | Please call your State Representative & State Senator ASAP |
| Jan 28, 2017 | Call Now — to sustain Gov's pay grab veto! |
| Jan 27, 2017 | Gov. Baker vetoed disgusting pay grab — Now what? |
| Jan 26, 2017 |
Governor needs to veto this arrogant pay grab
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| Jan 25, 2017 | House passes $18M money grab, on to Senate |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Whirlwind pay-grab day with more to come |
| Jan 24, 2017 |
No to arrogant pay grab
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| Jan 23, 2017 |
Legislature's money grab on fast track |
| Jan 20, 2017 |
Committee hears unconstitutional pay raise proposal |
| Jan 18, 2016 |
Legislators back for more pay raises
despite state Constitution
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| Jan 16, 2017 |
Pay Raises for Pols, Instant Welfare for Convicts |
| Jan 5, 2017 |
Enter 2017 |
| Dec 21, 2016 |
Season's Greetings |
| 2016 Index | CLT Updates and Alerts – 2016 Archive |
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