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Property tax shell games

October 18, 2006

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WHILE SOME voters are captivated by Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey's campaign to roll back the state income tax rate to 5 percent, their wallets are being drained by sharp increases in residential property taxes. Deval Patrick, her Democratic opponent in the race for governor, calls this a ``fiscal shell game." That's an accurate characterization. But Patrick is also fooling voters ... (Full article: 918 words)

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