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Elizabeth Warren Opted Against Paying Massachusetts’s Optional Higher Tax Rate

Elizabeth Warren Opted Against Paying Massachusetts’s Optional Higher Tax Rate

Tom Joyce

Elizabeth Warren wants to raise taxes if she's elected president, but usually hasn't chosen to pay more herself.

Massachusetts state income tax forms allow taxpayers to pay a higher rate to help out the state government. But according to tax returns posted on Warren's presidential campaign web site, she didn't do so at least nine years in a row.

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Cape Selectman Tries To Ditch Church As Polling Place Because It’s A Church

Matthew McDonald

A member of the Brewster Board of Selectmen tried to persuade fellow board members to move the town's polling place of almost 20 years because it is a church.

"I just believe that there should be the separation of church and state," Cynthia Bingham, a selectman, told The Cape Cod Times on Wednesday, January 8.

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