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Republicans, however, fear the rich will skedaddle. “The wealthy can move their tax home easily,” said State Representative Pam Sawyer, a Republican. Democrats are skeptical. “No one is going to move out of the state because we have an income tax of 6.5 percent. New Jersey is almost 9 percent or more. Massachusetts has a capital gains tax; we got rid of that,” said Barry. He has a point. Few people will move from Connecticut because of these changes...
...people will move to Connecticut because of them, either. “Companies in New York have told us they are considering moving to Connecticut for lower taxes. We need to keep the state competitive,” said Sawyer. And there’s no guarantee the surcharge will be temporary. For the next two years, federal stimulus money will fund 17 percent of the deficit. Extra credit: What happens when that money disappears...
...According to Angela Sawyer, the owner of Central Square’s Weirdo Records and singer of Exusamwa—a band that is led by former WHRB president Doug M. DeMay ’94—this sense of a true community is what sets Boston apart from places like New York. “To me, it’s the best combination of small town and big city,” she says...
...tell people [Exusamwa is] a hardcore band,” Sawyer says. “Not because it sounds hardcore. Some of the songs are fast and loud...
...Fest opened with the three-chord garage rock of Thick Shakes, which quickly gave way to the long, intricate, feedback-heavy compositions of Life Partners. Exusamwa combined manic punk with a performance art aesthetic—Sawyer spent the entire set in a wheelchair, her face bandaged and her voice howling, while her bandmates all wore red-stained OR scrubs—and Quits played experimental noise music. Daniel Striped Tiger played a cleaner, jazz-infused brand of post-hardcore, while L’Antietam’s heavier, more distorted songs featured complex tempo changes and polyrhythms. The audience...