Dracut Forum

We hear that studies in opposition to the global warming crowd are now being suppressed by the EPA.
Emails released by the Competitive Enterprise Institute show that a recent study not only suppressed, but other groups looking to comment on it were instructed not to as well:
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit, free-market public
policy organization, [...]

By Matt Murphy,  Lowell Sun

BOSTON — The state sales tax is going up.
So is the meals tax, taxes on alcohol, satellite TV and possibly hotels.
Both the House and Senate yesterday delivered an on-time budget to Gov. Deval Patrick that hikes the state sales tax from 5 percent to 6.25 percent and lifts the exemption [...]

This morning’s paper focuses on some of the local restaurants and businesses trying to survive in this recession and having a tough go of it.
Many are having trouble keeping up with the costs and expenses, and the taxes are just another thing throwing them over the edge.
Our own Bob Cox is trying to survive this [...]

What is wrong with this new Speaker of the House (DeLeo).
I am most happy with our own State Rep, Colleen Garry, as well as the other local reps like Bill Green in Billerica and Kevin Murphy in Lowell who all spoke out yesterday and voted against raising the Sales Tax.
The house has refused to support [...]

Up at the federal level, we have the government pushing through a “stimulus” bill which is supposed to get the economy going by creating jobs and getting people spending money.
The plan includes tax cuts (really credits) for most of us who work, as well as most who do not. (There’s a real incentive to improve [...]

By Lyle Moran, Sun Correspondent
BOSTON — Massachusetts Republicans say Gov. Deval Patrick’s decision yesterday to drastically reduce state spending and dip into the rainy-day fund wouldn’t have been necessary if he listened to their advice.
“The situation we find ourselves in today has been made much more severe by the Patrick administration’s refusal to heed the [...]

Ok, this mornings message from Barbara Anderson sort of wakes you up. Its all about question 1.. the repeal of the income tax.

I’ve noticed that when government is out of control, concerned voters fall into [...]

In an article in the Boston Globe, Dracut is identified as one of the hardest hit in the area with respect to the drop in housing values and its recent increase in taxes.
One of those hardest hit was Dracut, which had the area’s steepest one-year percentage drop in average value, from $318,811 to $303,879, or [...]

In most communities, taxes rise as values fall
By Connie Paige, Globe Correspondent
As the value of many single-family homes across the Commonwealth plunged over the past fiscal year, taxpayers northwest of Boston have had reason to loathe the worrisome trend.
For 34 cities and towns in this area, the average single-family home value dipped from $478,586 [...]