BOSTON – Republicans in the state Senate appeared resigned on Tuesday to the idea that Wednesday's vote over a constitutional amendment that would slap the commonwealth's top earners with a special tax surcharge will be a mere formality rather than a considered move informed by an actual debate.
"The way this building is and as liberal as this building, is I would say there's probably not a chance it will not be going forward," said state Sen. Richard Ross, a Republican from Wrentham whose party is badly outnumbered in the State House. "I know many of us who earn our money the old-fashioned way, if we were to hit a million dollars, I wouldn't want to have a special tax created just for me because I worked hard."
As words and phrases such as "safe space" and "micro-aggressions" find their way onto college campuses at an increasing rate, a belief has begun to form that our nation's universities are little more than cribs to coddle America's youth.
