POLLING: Bay Staters Sweating High Energy Costs Want Practical Solutions
MOA’s latest polling shows that voters want pragmatic solutions to increasingly high energy costs.
Budget Spotlight: Rethinking Massachusetts’ Tax Cap To Better Serve Residents
Since Fiscal Year 1986, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue has been required to calculate an “allowable state tax revenue” limit. In practice, the measure didn’t do quite as much as policymakers hoped to curb revenue collections. We explore a way to return more money to the taxpayer.
Bay State’s Affordability Crisis Contributes to Bummer Summer
Across the Commonwealth, the jaws of high costs are closing in on residents, and Bay Staters are making tough choices just to stay afloat.
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POLLING: Bay Staters Sweating High Energy Costs Want Practical Solutions
MOA’s latest polling shows that voters want pragmatic solutions to increasingly high energy costs.
Budget Spotlight: Rethinking Massachusetts’ Tax Cap To Better Serve Residents
Since Fiscal Year 1986, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue has been required to calculate an “allowable state tax revenue” limit. In practice, the measure didn’t do quite as much as policymakers hoped to curb revenue collections. We explore a way to return more money to the taxpayer.
Bay State’s Affordability Crisis Contributes to Bummer Summer
Across the Commonwealth, the jaws of high costs are closing in on residents, and Bay Staters are making tough choices just to stay afloat.
LOWELL SUN: Polls show that Healey’s no lock for second term
Two recently released polls shed light on what the state’s electorate contends should be Gov. Maura Healey’s priorities, and the probability she’ll be around for another four years to see them through.
Massachusetts Budget Reality Check
With budget season drawing to a close on Beacon Hill, we take a step back and see what the state budget would look like today if it had grown in line with common economic benchmarks.
BOSTON GLOBE: Don’t call it the ‘millionaires’ tax: Inflation is raising the bar on who pays Massachusetts’ high-earner levy
Two-plus years after Massachusetts residents voted to more heavily tax earnings over $1 million, inflation is steadily raising the bar on who actually needs to pay the extra levy each year.
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