Can we Count on Your Vote?
Please help the campaign by filling out this voter pledge card so we know you support the Fair Share Amendment!
Let’s see how many pledges we can get from Brookline!
The Fair Share Amendment is a proposal to amend the Massachusetts Constitution, creating an additional tax of four percentage points on the portion of a person’s annual income above $1 million. The new revenue, approximately $2 billion a year, would be spent on “quality public education and affordable public colleges and universities, and for the repair and maintenance of roads, bridges and public transportation.” To ensure that the amendment continues to apply only to the highest income taxpayers, who have the ability to pay more, the $1 million threshold would be adjusted each year to reflect cost-of-living increases.
To help working families, to ensure Massachusetts stays a great place to live, work, and raise a family, and to build a stronger economy for us all, we need to make sure we have high-quality public schools and colleges and a transportation system that works. Without investments in these common goals, working families fall behind and our communities suffer.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts’ economy was working great for those at the top, but that prosperity wasn’t reaching most of our people and communities. Our transportation infrastructure was falling apart. Our public colleges were underfunded and increasingly unaffordable, and our public education system wasn’t providing equal opportunity to all students. For years, Massachusetts’ communities of color have been harmed by inequitable and inadequate access to transportation and public education. Now, the pandemic has heightened these economic and racial inequities that prevent broadly shared prosperity.
As we recover from the pandemic and in the future, new revenue is necessary to improve our public schools and pre-K programs; rebuild crumbling roads, bridges, sidewalks, and bike paths; make high-quality public higher education affordable; and invest in fast and reliable public transportation. Long before the pandemic, we needed new investments in our transportation and public education systems, and now those investments are needed more than ever to lift our economy into an equitable recovery and tackle the longstanding racial inequities that hold our state back from its full potential.
A 4% increase on income over $1 million is supported in the MA Democratic Party platform.
Please fill out our pledge card so we know you can count on your vote when this makes it to the statewide ballot on November 8, 2022!