This morning, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a decision barring the proposed income tax cut ballot initiative from appearing on the November 2026 ballot because of its fraudulent ballot summary.
This is a massive victory that will protect Massachusetts from billions of dollars in budget cuts. However the fight isn’t over.
That’s because it was just one of two tax cut ballot initiatives that wealthy investors and CEOs have been attempting to qualify for the 2026 statewide ballot.
The dark-money Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance (MOA) is still backing a ballot initiative that would tighten the state’s revenue cap, known as “62F,” and slash funding for classrooms, hospitals, and first responders across the state.
What would this question do?
- Trigger devastating cuts to public services, forcing Massachusetts to slash billions of dollars in public spending over the next decade.
- Severely limit our ability to recover from recessions by triggering the largest budget cuts in the years following an economic recession
- Give billions to the rich while the rest of us suffer from budget cuts
But Beacon Hill can take action now to neutralize this ballot question. The revenue cap itself is the result of an outdated, misguided 1986 ballot question. It was not about improving the well-being of the Commonwealth then, nor is MOA’s question about that today. The goal has always been weakening investment in and support for public services.
The best way to defeat this ballot question is to do away with the 62F revenue cap once and for all.
