Massachusetts lost a true taxpayers' champion Friday with the passing of Barbara C. Anderson.
Anderson was the driving force behind 1980's Proposition 2 1/2, the signature law that forced the Bay State down the road to shedding its well-deserved "Taxachusetts" moniker, and the champion of many subsequent tax-cutting or limiting measures. She succumbed to leukemia Friday at 73, according to Citizens for Limited Taxation, the group she led for decades.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign has the Boston Globe in a tizzy. On Sunday, the paper published a fake front page with "news stories" from a day-in-the-life of America under an imagined Trump presidency. The page, published as part of the paper's Ideas section, appeared to be an attempt by the paper to scare the public about the prospects of a Trump presidency.
The top story bears the headline: "Deportations To Begin" and says that "President Trump" has called on Congress to triple the number of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in order to create a "massive deportation force." The lead article goes on to say that federal agents have rounded up migrant strawberry pickers in California and sent them to a detention center to await prosecution and deportation.
