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Why does the school budget keep increasing if the student population keeps decreasing?

Right, which doesn’t seem to be allowed under the constitutional requirement for where the funds can be spent. For an agency facing billion dollar deficits and a barely functioning system, fare reductions and ill-advised south coast expansion is making things worse.

The millionaires tax increases are dwarfed by the estate tax and ST cap gains tax reductions.

Repairs and maintenance seems like operations and not capital improvements. Also how does reduced fares fit into the “repairs and maintenance” restriction? Why reduce fares when staring at a billion dollar deficit in a few years?

While I don’t think the tax cut went to the same folks as the 80% tax increase, $1.0b tax cut isn’t a ‘wash’ with a $1.8b tax increase. The damage isn’t done in a day but over time. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/21/business/millionaires-tax-survey-accountants/

Wasn’t the millionaires tax going to provide billions for transportation and education? This place is going to tax itself into oblivion if it keeps this up.

More housing? Easy: - remove/limit zoning - remove/limit architectural review, planning board, neighborhood reviews - prohibit inclusionary zoning / set asides (which is a tax on production) - prohibit community benefits - remove parking minimums - remove requirements for traffic, shadow, etc...

It applied to taxis, Uber, service vehicles, delivery trucks, etc which is paid for by folks who don’t drive. You could also charge people who use the MTA to ride the MTA. They need to look at their cost structure, inefficient union work rules and everything else. The answer isn’t always...

It’s a disaster that was going to screw everyone. Even the unions who were going to get the money hated it.

What about Brightline?

That might be tough with the Amazon delivery of my big bag of dog food or the case of paper towels!

Seems like we shouldn’t have infrastructure be limited such that any failure crashes the system. Plus the truck traffic is artificially reduced given the port restrictions.

Here is the article - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/18/business/massachusetts-population-leaving-domestic-outmigration-housing/ An older article from a year ago - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/15/business/exodus-mass-accelerated-2021-pioneer-analysis-shows/ Mass population is up...

I know it wouldn’t pass but why pass round about sticks regarding bypassing existing train stations. Just over rule them if the state is that adamant in forcing the zoning.

Population is dropping and millionaires are leaving. Even the Globe admitted it.

The state could just pass a rezoning law setting zoning in these towns. Or it could remove zoning entirely and see what gets built. Just go direct if that’s what you want.

I love going to the car shows and seeing the classics and the newer ones. https://www.instagram.com/chasing.amazing.cars?igsh=cjk0a3NrZDR4bWZl&utm_source=qr

How about getting rid of zoning? The best urban areas and dense town centers were all built pre-zoning.

I grew up in the Boston suburbs and as a partner in a big law firm in Boston with a national and international practice that mostly travels for work and WFH the other days, I’m a few weeks out from closing on my new Florida home. We will keep the house here for the summers for a couple years...

This isn’t realistic for most people who live on the cape, spend summer weekends or just go for a week with the family.