Word: preventative
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Voters determined to send a letter bomb to the state legislature seem to have been more swayed by the second argument, professing loudly their belief that the legislators will surely come through with the money needed to prevent layoffs and cutbacks. But the Massachusetts legislature acts in the public interest only once a year, and that's the day it votes to adjourn and return to their law offices for the summer. This legislature has never been a great friend of tax reform--they created the present system and they have maintained it ever since, for a very simple reason...
...Coalition to End Aminal Suffering in Experiments (CEASE) sponsored the rally, which brought together several lobbying organizations trying to prevent cruelty to animals...
...that after he was accused of participation in a homosexual incident and failed to curb his chronic drinking, he checked into a hospital for treatment because "it was been to get myself cured than run for reelection." Untermeyer cautions his students that the "all-consuming" demands of political life prevent all but the rarest politician from "having anything resembling a normal family life," and has invited Peter Beilenson '81, son of Congressman Anthony Beilenson (D-Calif.), to supplement the mature testimonials of Wyatt and others...
While other cities would probably not have to eviscerate their budgets, they would still face arterial cuts. One way to prevent municipal harakiri would be charging for services or transferring the services covered by property taxes to other assessments (Concord is considering increasing its water fees by $100,000)--thereby defeating the purpose of the proposition...
...using "scare tactics"; they argue that reductions won't be that severe. The inflation rate will increase property values sufficiently to offset the tax cut, even though the cost of providing services is rising. And they argue that many officials are presenting worst-case examples, which the legislature would prevent. And if all else fails and a city gets strapped, it has two ways to override Proposition 2 1/2 getting two-thirds approval in a local referendum during the biennial general election or in elections called by the legislature in the November of an intervening year...