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Women's advocates in Boston want the Massachusetts State House to do more to ensure women receive "equal pay for equal work." A press event earlier this month mostly celebrated proposed legislation to increase penalties for businesses violating equal pay statutes and further regulate compensation practices, but
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Many Americans are taking a welcome break this summer from the relentless tug-of-war in our political debates. But that's not so in the Massachusetts State House where officials are rehashing one of the most well-worn issues in modern politics: the so-called wage gap between male and female workers.
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Massachusetts progressives are making another try at amending the state constitution to permit a graduated income tax. This is after unsuccessful efforts to do the same thing in 1962, 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1994. But this time is different. In 1994, proponents were upfront about what they had in mind.
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Will "Taxachusetts" soon join the undead? On Wednesday, lawmakers on Beacon Hill have an opportunity to drive a stake through the heart of that long-derided state nickname, by refusing to vote for a new 4 percent surcharge on million-dollar incomes. If legislators give the proposed constitutional amendment the
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Maybe Yale should move. That's the reaction of at least one Yale graduate, the Cato Institute's Walter Olson, to the news that the Connecticut state legislature is reportedly considering imposing a new tax on endowment income of universities with endowments larger than $10 billion.
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In a political era when "success stories" are all too rare, Massachusetts shines as a remarkable counter-example. Once denigrated as "Taxachusetts" and infamous as a high-tax, Big Government beachhead, Massachusetts recently ate Connecticut's lunch (and breakfast, and dinner) by attracting its foremost corporate citizen,
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Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, along with President Obama, say they want high-income earners, otherwise known as the rich, to pay their fair share of income taxes. None of these people, as well as the uninformed in the media and our campus intellectual elites, will say precisely
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Last week, readers of the Boston Globe were treated to yet another article lamenting the fact that Boston, according to an analysis of 2014 Census data by the Brookings Institution, is the U.S. city with the greatest income disparity between the top 5 percent of income earners and the
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