This paper uses data from a large statewide survey of Massachusetts residents to measure support for Proposition 2 1/2. Proposition 2 1/2 required high tax rate communities to reduce property tax levies 15 percent per year until the tax rate is reduced to the maximum allowable rate of 2 1/2 percent of full and fair market value. Specifically, this paper addresses the question of whether individuals' expectations and preferences vary in a systematic way across communities grouped by 1981 effective tax rates. Section I describes and justifies the community groupings. Sections II and III examine how expectations of the effects of Proposition 2 1/2 and preferences for fiscal change vary across community groups. Appended are six references and a table that serves as a means for determining the significance of differences in percentages between any two subgroups in the overall sample. (SI)