NMRLS Executive Board Statement on Question One
The NMRLS
Executive Board believes that the enactment of Question One,
(elimination of the Massachusetts state income tax) will have a severe
negative impact on libraries and library service in northeast
Massachusetts. Among the immediate results will be the elimination of
funding for the most used services, such as interlibrary delivery,
support for shared catalogs, and online research databases. The longer
term impact will be devastating and eliminate the many gains libraries
have made through decades of cooperative efforts, forcing libraries to
survive individually and alone.
Elimination of the state income
tax will not decrease the need or desire for library services within
communities, but merely shift the responsibility of fund provision from
the state, which uses its collective purchasing power to maximize
cost-savings and efficiency, to individual communities, which will
ultimately pay more and get less.
The NMRLS Executive Board approved this statement unanimously in action taken in September 20008.
Related Links and Positions on the Question
Massachusetts
Secretary of the Commonwealth's Information for Voters (PDF,
700k) Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation report: Enormous Consequences of Qutestion 1 (PDF 104kb)
Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners
Massachusetts
Library Association
Massachusetts School
Library Association
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2009 Calendar
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March 6, 2009 - Northeast Legislative Breakfast at Beverly Public Library
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April 1, 2009 - MLA Library Legislative Day
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