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On Deadline is presenting some of the ballot items voters will see when they go to the polls on Election Day. Today’s measure comes to us from Massachusetts, where voters are being asked to change the state’s income tax scheme. Here’s how officials describe Question 1: This proposed law would reduce the state personal income tax rate to 2.65% for all categories of taxable income for the tax year beginning on or after January 1, 2009, and would eliminate the tax for all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2010. The personal income tax applies to income received or gain realized by individuals and married couples, by estates of deceased persons, by certain trustees and other fiduciaries, by persons who are partners in and receive income from partnerships, by corporate trusts, and by persons who receive income as shareholders of “S corporations” as defined under federal tax law. … WHAT YOUR VOTE WILL DO A YES VOTE would reduce the state personal income tax rate to 2.65% for the t
Chavez Wins Referendum to Eliminate Term Limits Venezuelan voters passed a referendum Sunday to lift a two-term constitutional limit on the presidential office, allowing Hugo Chavez to run again in 2012 to continue what he calls the country’s socialist revolution. With 94 percent of the ballots counted, 54 percent had voted for the constitutional amendment, said National Electoral Council chief Tibisay Lucena, the Associated Press reported. Chavez celebrated the results at the presidential palace, shouting from the balcony, “The doors of the future are wide open,” quoted the BBC. “Those who voted ‘yes’ today voted for socialism, for revolution,” he said. Critics of the removal of the 12-year term limit say it brings Venezuela closer to a dictatorship, but opposition leaders said they would not contest the vote, which international observers maintained was free and fair. “We accept this result,” student leader David Smolansky, 23, said at opposition campaign headquarters, according to t
