Boston.com readers want the benefits of Baker's 2-month tax holiday

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Readers against Baker's proposal tended to agree with the stance of politicians like Rep. Mindy Domb, an Amherst Democrat, who wrote on Twitter that the surplus money would be better spent on things like student debt relief, supporting public higher education, and addressing rent relief post-pandemic.
41% : We pay taxes for services that, by proxy, we've voted for.

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