The group that officially kicked off the ballot campaign Wednesday for the proposed surtax on household income over $1 million included a personal care attendant from Brockton, an education support staffer from Worcester, a public transit advocate from Fall River, an ice cream shop owner from Everett, a student counselor from UMass Dartmouth and a human services worker from Lynn.
After the U.S. Supreme Court decided this week not to take up New Hampshire’s lawsuit challenging Massachusetts’s taxing of residents working remotely from other states during the pandemic, members of Congress from the Granite State and Connecticut filed a bill to prevent states from taxing out-of-state workers.
While declining to take a position on a proposed 4 percent income surtax on household income above $1 million, Gov. Charlie Baker in a televised interview Sunday reiterated his general opposition to new taxes and said Beacon Hill leaders should try to solve immediate budget difficulties without seeking more revenue from taxpayers who, he said, are managing their own affairs in the face of low personal income growth rates.
