"GOP says plan would circumvent tax limit; House official defends proposal" by Michael Norton, State House News Service | April 23, 2010
Republican lawmakers, with encouragement from two candidates for governor, will launch an effort next week to strike language from a Democrat-sponsored bill that they assert will permit sizable property tax increases without voter approval.
Citing a Citizens for Limited Taxation estimate that the proposal could spur as much as $550 million in additional property taxes outside those allowed by state law, House minority leader Bradley H. Jones Jr. called the proposal a “slap in the face to the taxpayers.’’
--more--"Also see: The Perils of One-Party Politics: The Problem
The Perils of One-Party Politics: The Ruling Party
The Perils of One-Party Politics: Massachusetts' Democracy
Mass. Legislature Exempts Itself From Ethics Reform
Memory Hole: Learning How to Make a Law in Massachusetts
And they called it "democracy."
