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  • Duke’s disciples crazy for taxes ( Dukakis )

    06/13/2007 8:51:21 PM PDT · by george76 · 6 replies · 342+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | June 8, 2007
    You’ve heard of the “tax-anything-that-moves” crowd? Well they were out in full force at the State House yesterday - under the able direction of their movement’s founding father, former Gov. Michael Dukakis, who is establishing his place as the Jimmy Carter of ex-Bay State governors. Dukakis and a group of Democratic lawmakers were there to lobby for a bill that would finance billions in commuter rail expansion projects by taxing - you guessed it! - just about anything that moves. Literally. For starters there’d be a new tax on all vehicles - a “greenhouse gas reduction fee” - tied to...