The tiny Republican minority proposed one piece of legislation that would guarantee that the new money would have to be added to money already being spent on education and transportation and another that would require the money to be put into a separate fund so its use could be tracked. His voter’s guide says the use of that money will be “subject to appropriation by the state legislature,” which means politicians can tell you anything about how they intend to spend it, but once it’s in their hands, they can spend it any way they want. If the opponents are lying, then so is Secretary of State Bill Galvin. One ad claims “politicians can’t spend it on anything else,” and accuses opponents who say there is no guarantee of how the money will be spent of lying.Īlso not true. Second, those ads declare that all of the money raised is constitutionally guaranteed to go to education (you know, “for the children!”) and transportation. They’re certainly correct, but that would be because the rich paid more - the opposite of what the ads are telling you. Indeed, the “fair share” people undermined their own argument when news broke recently that Massachusetts taxpayers collectively would be getting a refund of nearly $3 billion on the 2021 taxes they paid because the amount collected last year had exceeded a threshold set by an obscure 1986 law that most legislators, including the leadership, had forgotten existed.Īs soon as word came out that the refund would be about 13% of what people had paid, the “fair share” people started complaining that the rich would be getting a bigger refund than the rest of us.
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