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DIG 23.05 – 4/8/21

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GUEST OPINION: ENACTING “MILLIONAIRES’ TAXES” WILL SET BACK STATE RECOVERIES

Written by CHARLES CHIEPPO AND JIM STERGIOS Posted March 10, 2021 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics

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Connecticut’s travails in recent years, combined with the unprecedented mobility of wealth, makes it clear that millionaires’ taxes are a 20th-century solution to a 21st-century problem. Embracing them would only prolong states’ long-awaited recovery from the economic effects of COVID-19.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics Tagged With: conservative, criticism, Massachusetts, opinion, Pioneer Institute, policy, taxation, wealth tax

THANKS, SOCIOPATHS!

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 16, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

More Mass residents have died from COVID-19 than all the Mass soldiers killed in WWII, but let’s “get back to normal,” right?

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Bob DeLeo, Charlie Baker, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, criticism, Democracy, Health, Jason Pramas, mask, Massachusetts, MBTA, policy, Politics, public health, social distancing, tax, taxation, transportation, usa

THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART II

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 6, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Attorney General Maura Healey, Boston, Boston Globe, capitalism, Column, corporation, corruption, Democratic Socialists of America, DigBoston, DSA, economy, End Corporate Welfare Act, ethics, GE, General Electric, Governor Charlie Baker, Great Recession, independent commission, investigation, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Julia Salazar, labor, malfeasance, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, municipal bond, neoliberalism, Politics, scandal, Shaun Scott, subprime mortgage, tax, taxation

THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART I

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 28, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

The official narrative and the real story

 

Readers might feel that this should be a time for me to take a victory lap. The GE Boston deal that I criticized from the moment it was made public in January 2016 ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Globe, capitalism, Column, corporation, corruption, DigBoston, economy, ethics, GE, General Electric, Governor Charlie Baker, Great Recession, Jason Pramas, Journalism, labor, malfeasance, Massachusetts, mayor Marty Walsh, municipal bond, neoliberalism, Politics, scandal, subprime mortgage, tax, taxation, Vertex

STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 17, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

school parody image

 

Why the Mass budget surplus is better spent on infrastructure needs

 

Having just been handed an estimated $1 billion budget surplus for the 2018 fiscal year, Gov. Charlie Baker was quick to make a proposal last week to divide up the unexpected spoils.

 

According to  ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, Democracy, economy, education, Gov Charlie Baker, higher education, Jason Pramas, legislature, Massachusetts, news, Politics, public, safety net, supplemental budget, surplus, taxation, transportation, Trump, welfare

GRAND SCHEME

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 26, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

workers protesting

 

Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies

 

No sooner did the Supreme Judicial Court shoot down the “millionaires’ tax” referendum question last week than the Mass ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, bill, budget, Column, corporation, Democracy, economy, education, Fair Share amendment, family and medical leave, Fight For 15, general court, Gov Charlie Baker, graduated, grand bargain, higher education, Jason Pramas, legislature, Massachusetts, millionaire's tax, MTA, news, Politics, public, referendum, rich, SEIU, Speaker Robert DeLeo, Supreme Judicial Court, taxation, transportation, wealthy

CAPITALIST VETO

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 19, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Money tips the scales of justice image

 

Popular “millionaires’ tax” referendum question blocked by a pro-business SJC

 

The Fair Share Amendment—better known as the “millionaires’ tax”—that would have gone before voters this November as a statewide referendum question  ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, budget, Column, corporation, Democracy, economy, education, Fair Share amendment, graduated, higher education, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, millionaire's tax, MTA, news, Politics, public, referendum, rich, SEIU, Supreme Judicial Court, taxation, transportation, wealthy

TOWNIE: TAX DELINQUENT, TAX GIVEAWAY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 2, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie

 

Crutchfield sues Mass over online taxes, unions protest Siemens

 

Online retailer tries to duck sales taxes

For a long time, the internet was like the Wild West for online sales. Companies sold products to consumers all over the US, and the feds and many states were slow to tax those transactions. You know, because “innovation ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie Tagged With: corporations, Crutchfield, economy, Giveaway, government, Jason Pramas, malfeasance, Massachusetts, Politics, scam, Siemens, taxation, Townie, Walpole

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