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Jun 18, 2008
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2009
The House-Senate conference committee deliberating the fiscal 2009 state budget is facing a potential billion-dollar shortfall which threatens to deplete almost half of the Commonwealth's reserves, leaving the state in a precarious position should an...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2009
Jun 01, 2008
TRANSPORTATION
In testimony before the Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets on June 4, MTF President Michael J. Widmer called on the Legislature to cap the Governor's bridge program at $1 billion. Mr. Widmer noted that there are no new...
TRANSPORTATION
May 01, 2008
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2008
The state is facing a $500 million deficit in fiscal 2008 and the recently passed House budget for fiscal 2009 is at least $1 billion out of balance, creating a situation in which more than half of the state's reserves could be depleted in the next...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2008
May 01, 2008
TRANSPORTATION
Continuing its longstanding efforts to reduce reliance on police details, on May 20 MTF President Michael J. Widmer offered testimony to the Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works at the first public hearing on recently passed...
TRANSPORTATION
Dec 01, 2007
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2009
Massachusetts employers will spend an estimated $175 million a year for additional employee coverage under the state's health care reform law, according to a report released by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. The report analyzes the broad...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2009
Dec 01, 2007
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2008
Tax revenues will grow somewhat better than expected in fiscal 2008 but increase only marginally in 2009, according to a forecast released today by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2008
Oct 01, 2007
TRANSPORTATION
On October 25 the Foundation released a report analyzing the revenue projections included in the administration's plan to license three casinos in Massachusetts. The detailed analysis raises a variety of questions about the revenues and benefits from...
TRANSPORTATION
Aug 01, 2007
HEALTH CARE
Cities and towns across the Commonwealth can save as much as $750 million in 2013 and $2.5 billion in 2018 by taking advantage of a new law that allows them to join the Group Insurance Commission (GIC), the state agency which administers health...
HEALTH CARE
Jun 01, 2007
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2008
"How long will the luck hold? For the past three fiscal years the Legislature has passed budgets which depended on reserves to achieve balance. In each case tax revenues came in better than forecast, largely because of capital gains, eliminating the...
PUBLIC FINANCE > Budget > FY 2008