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Globe Editorial

The state's binge-purge diet

December 5, 2008

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The state's overreliance on the volatile capital gains tax creates a feast-famine syndrome in the tax system, as a new MassINC report describes. A cap on the amount of such revenues to be spent in good years (with a stabilization fund for any excess) is a good idea, but broadening the sales tax instead is not. (Full article: 457 words)

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