Never before have so many waited so long for so little. After waiting two long years, Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka finally made public the details of their tax relief package the day before an expected vote, and it includes a hidden tax hike...

Chapter 62F of the Massachusetts General Laws stems from a voter passed initiative from 1986, spearheaded by Citizens for Limited Taxation (CLT). That law claims that if state tax collections are greater than the growth in salaries and wages, any surplus must be returned to...