Is the #Taxachusetts label no longer appropriate because of a recent tax "cut?" (The true middle-class in #Massachusetts gets very little from that bill, though Beacon Hill politicians are straining arms to pat themselves on the back for the head-fake.)
Not so fast.
As the npub1l90pl95h5k2700gynan7zjve9eqvrse0v8v0ue0lznywejy66cxslnlzqk (npub1l90…lzqk) points out, what the legislature in #Boston gives, it takes right back.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/20/business/proposed-healey-real-estate-transaction-fee/
Alex Neihaus /
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2023-10-20 17:18:02
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