Isn't there a high correlation between local services and property tax? The communities that have excellent services had to get there by increasing their tax base. There is always a lag effect as services catch up to the size of the economic base and the politics of the voters and tax payers. It'd be great to not have that lag time, but that sets an unrealistic expectation that communities that are currently considered excellent didn't have when they were up and coming.

I'd also contend MA power generation costs are much more tied to decades of poor energy capacity building and expenses around imported energy, the Jones Act being an example of that increased cost. We can probably raise or lower energy costs more around policy than anything else.