tremendous disappointment of millions of taxpayers and teachers and parents over this Legislature's failure to act on property tax relief and education reform.

We're going to have to get the money somewhere, and you'll have to shift that burden from property tax to sales and income tax, but I think it can be done.

At long last, we must move to real and enduring property tax reform.

There is a lot of interest in property tax relief across the country. A lot of states have either recently enacted or are considering a variety of mechanisms, often aimed at finding relief for senior citizens and low-income homeowners who get swamped by rising property values.

Real estate growth and real estate boom seem to be happening all over the country and [property-tax revolt] is an inevitable consequence.

We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 40 per cent the year before and 30 per cent the year before that, then you're hitting them with another basically property tax. . . . It's just the straw that broke the camel's back, it's too much.