Here's what voting yes on #1 is going to result in:
Wholesale property re-assessments after Prop. 2-1/2 overrides are voted down. The town can't get an override, and it needs the revenue to offset the lost state aid? Mr. Assessor makes his rounds, and they collect at the new assessment while you try to appeal it or fight it some other way. "Oh you have a new garage. You have a new shed. You paved your driveway. You cut down a tree, and now I can see a speck of water so it's water view. New cement steps. A new deck. Vinyl siding."
The further death of an already dying real estate market.
More forecolsures when people can't afford the jump in their mortgage due to higher property taxes/re-assessments. More pressure on a financial system that's on the brink of collapse right today.
Sales tax doubling to 10%. Which will do wonders to spur already dying sales of new motor vehicles and boats.
200% or more increases in every fee you currently pay--licenses, car registrations, inspections, you name it.
Major excise tax increases for vehicles and boats.
Wholesale layoffs of state employees, in what are deemed "non-essential" services. Not all of them are banging in sick to run fishing charters.
Oh, you think that government is going to tighten its belt and stop waste and perks? ROTFLMAO--this is MASSACHUSETTS. The hackarama sees your tax dollars as their entitlement. Thinking that they're going to tighten their own belts is like thinking that a wino won't drink Sterno of you shut down packies and bars
Be careful what you wish for--you might get it.
Oh--and on #2? Nobody--and I mean NOBODY--ever does time in this state on a first offense marijuana possession. You're presumptively entitled to a continuance without a finding. No one ever goes to jail even for a first offense for possession with intent to distribute, or actual distribution. You need to have enough grass to be charged with trafficking--something like 100 lbs--before jail time is mandatory.