from Boston.com
The third time was the charm in Canton, where voters backed the adoption of the Community Preservation Act after rejecting the program in 2006 and again last spring.
While Canton was among seven communities statewide to adopt the Community Preservation Act and an accompanying tax surcharge Tuesday, neighboring Milton was one of two to pass it up at the polls. (Read the full story here.)
The attached article buried the lead.
The lead story in this article is not that Canton passed the Community Preservation Act Tax on real estate – at 1% by the way, not the 1.5% Milton proposed – but that Duxbury taxpayers voted to reduce the percentage of the CPA Tax in their community.
What does Duxbury know and shouldn’t we be listening to them ?
Again, the lead in this article is that Duxbury voted to reduce the CPA Real Estate Tax.
It’s 148 communities that have voted for the CPA. They all knew it was a tax, so there is no stealth tax issue. Assuming that the good citizens of these communities are ignorant, without even an attempt at an argument to support it, is not very convincing as an argument, nor is comparing the CPA’s popularity with Jim Crow.
The CPA is no less transparent than any Proposition 2 1/2 operating override vote. I’m still waiting for someone to have the courage to describe what this terrifying agenda they fear is.
In logic the argument from authority i.e. “148 communities practice human sacrifice” therefore human sacrifice is a public good, is the very weakest of arguments. It is equally unconvincing on the issue of taxes. The proponents failed to make their case, and no doubt they will be re-making their case in the near future. The residents of Milton will have to remain vigilant.
Does anyone really believe the Commonwealth will continue to match funds for this program? Just look what happened to the Quinn bill!
One has to have a great deal of faith in our state government to believe that in five years towns would be getting any matching funds
at all. Taxpayer beware!