Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...seems incongruous that a group whose members' wages are paid by taxes would sponsor a tax-cutting measure. In fact, it sounds downright fishy. But that's what Question 3 on tomorrow's ballot--sponsored by the Massachusetts Teachers Association--would technically do: limit state and local tax increases to the rate of annual per capita growth in income. It would also shift the state's share of the tab for local education from 30 to 50 per cent...
...some of the designations seem motivated at least in part by politics--"Ethnic and cultural heritage appreciation" is code for the Dante Alighieri Center, a pet project of powerful city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, who has criticized institutional guidelines in the past when they seemed likely to limit his plans...
Richard Manley, president of Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business lobbying group, said the measure--which would limit property taxes to 2 1/2 per cent of assessed property values--is "poor tax policy...
Perhaps the most dangerous assertion is the limit he places on these groups' ability to perform. To limit the hopes for high academic success is to destroy the capability to attain that success. People tend to live up to the expectations imposed on them, if they are told their capabilities are low, then they will often cease to strive for higher goals and thus fail to realize their full potential. These statements are not only dangerous but irresponsible as well, for they stifle intellectual curiosity and destroy self-esteem...
...city's community development department is currently engaged in formulating regulations to limit institutional expansion into the city's residential neighborhoods, expansion that robs Cantabrigians of housing, depletes the city's tax base, and destroys the few neighborhoods that still exist. The first draft of the regulations released last week is encouraging in some ways--the community development department has formulated a workable method of measuring and regulating expansion...