WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are of two minds about the economy in the midst of an election race that largely hinges on the issue. They are strikingly pessimistic about the national economy yet comparatively upbeat about their own financial circumstances.
Just 42 percent of adults describe the U.S. economy as good, according to a survey released Wednesday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. But two-thirds say their own households are faring well.
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."
