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States see value in cutting taxes

A new report by the Center for State Fiscal Reform at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) highlights states that are spurring economic growth by cutting taxes. The report highlights a number of states that have qualified for all three editions of ALEC's "State Tax Cut Roundup.

Massachusetts

Ed secretary: Tax-raising amendment could damage economy, schools

BOSTON — A constitutional amendment raising taxes on millionaires to generate $1.9 billion for education and transportation would hurt the economy and damage the state's ability to support school services, Education Secretary James Peyser said Thursday. "Definitely not," Peyser told the News Service following an event

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Does GE’s move to Mass. signal a Connecticut exodus?

The morning after he spent the evening as President Barack Obama's hand-picked guest at Tuesday's State of the Union address, Connecticut's Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy awoke to headlines announcing General Electric's decision to relocate the company from suburban Fairfield, Connecticut to

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What’s a ‘fair share’?

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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GE will relocate to Boston as Baker, Walsh bet big and win

BOSTON – Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker got some good news today from General Electric, the Connecticut-based industrial giant, which confirmed plans to move its headquarters to the Hub, locking in a win on some big bets the two leaders made. "They are going to be

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Film workers defend state tax credit Baker would cut

BOSTON – Film industry workers flooded a State House hearing Tuesday to defend a tax credit they say has fueled job growth by making the state a regular destination for large and small productions and enabled industry workers to stay in Massachusetts rather than pursuing opportunities in New York or Los

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Will Trump learn from Romney’s mistakes?

It was bound to happen sooner or later — former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney regrettably waded into the treacherous currents of the 2016 presidential campaign by admonishing likely Republican nominee Donald Trump over tax disclosure. The Romney-Trump relationship, seemingly like many relationships involving Trump-The-Candidate, combines the

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Gas tax option for Mass. towns explored on Beacon Hill

BOSTON – In a brief public hearing lacking of any counter-arguments, members of the Legislature's Joint Revenue Committee listened Tuesday to a western Massachusetts lawmaker's pitch to let cities and towns decide whether to slap drivers with a 3-cent-a-gallon fuel tax surcharge at the pump. "I