Article snippet: State officials have recently hired four of the state GOP’s operatives, including two directly within the governor’s office. Capital Source The line was drawn Wednesday when Councilor Althea Garrison proposed an ordinance that would allow Boston to cap yearly rent increases in residential homes. The goal: Generate much-needed cash to plow into education and transportation with a surcharge of 4 percentage points on the state’s income tax for earnings above $1 million. The hourlong meeting between Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins and Thomas A. Turco III — Governor Charlie Baker’s public safety secretary — was part of an effort to quell the heated dispute between the state and county officials. Senator Elizabeth Warren is proposing another new tax that targets the richest entities in the US economy, this time Amazon and the nation’s other most-profitable companies. Steve Grossman, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and three-time statewide candidate, is endorsing Pete Buttigieg for president. The proposal would also rely on revenue from the administration’s previously announced increases in hotel and parking meter fees to fund new initiatives on homelessness and city streets and sidewalks. The head of the IRS, overseeing the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code in three decades, says the average refund in this year’s tax-filing season, $2,833, worked out to be close to last year’s. The announcement c... Link to the full article to read more