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Whack Businesses for Transportation Improvements, Not Gas Tax and Tolls and Uber, Says Left-of-Center Massachusetts Group

Whack Businesses for Transportation Improvements, Not Gas Tax and Tolls and Uber, Says Left-of-Center Massachusetts Group

Some of the same interest groups that successfully pushed for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and other concessions to organized labor in Massachusetts are now looking to increase taxes on businesses in the state to pay for transportation improvements. Raise Up Massachusetts, which supports a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would allow taxing people with incomes of $1 million or more at a significantly higher rate than other people, is calling for a tiered tax structure for busines

Some of the same interest groups that successfully pushed for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and other concessions to organized labor in Massachusetts are now looking to increase taxes on businesses in the state to pay for transportation improvements. Raise Up Massachusetts, which supports a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would allow taxing people with incomes of $1 million or more at a significantly higher rate than other people, is calling for a tiered tax structure for busines…