The Fair Share Amendment: taxing the very rich to invest in education 🏫 and transportation 🚋 across MA. NOW IN THE STATE CONSTITUTION.
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We won. Question 1 passes. The Fair Share Amendment is in the Massachusetts constitution.
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It's time to fix the T!
The MBTA is receiving $200.8 million from the Fair Share Amendment that will help fund major improvements, including:
🚉Station & accessibility upgrades
🌉Bridge repairs
🛤️Subway track & signal improvements
🚃Commuter rail projects
#PaidforbyFairShare
2024
In:
-billions of dollars for public education and transportation
-free school lunches
-fare-free public transit
-tuition-free public college
-4% tax on income over $1 million a year
Out:
-upside down tax systems that only benefit the ultra-rich
Yes on 1 For a Fairer Massachusetts retweeted
Massachusetts voted Yes on Question 1 in 2022, creating an additional tax of 4% for income over $1 million, in addition to the existing 5% flat-rate income tax, and dedicate revenue to education and transportation purposes.
Yes - 1,232,662 - 52%
No - 1,137,642 - 48%
Today, the Fair Share Amendment is making it easier to go to college.
If you’re eligible for a Pell Grant, you now also qualify for tuition- and fee-free education at a MA community college, public university, or UMass.
One third of all UMass students qualify for free tuition.
That’s because of a $62 million expansion in financial aid for students at public colleges—and that $62 million is directly raised by the Fair Share Amendment’s 4% tax on income over $1M per year.
Read all about it: whdh.com/news/big-college-ai…
For more on what that $1 billion dollars has already funded in MA, fairsharema.com has the details.
Yes on 1 For a Fairer Massachusetts retweeted
I wrote about the inspiring @FairShareMA campaign. A broad labor-community coalition won a ballot measure to tax the rich and fund public services!
jacobin.com/2022/11/massachu…
Yes on 1 For a Fairer Massachusetts retweeted
Unions, teachers, health care workers, and people across Massachusetts came together to take on a tough fight. And now millionaires will pay a fair share to fund roads, bridges, transit, and public education. Woo-hoo, @FairShareMA!
masslive.com/politics/2022/1…
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At the @FairShareMA victory press conference, and it is impressive to think that this victory was 100-years in the making.
We have had a constitutional flat tax for > 100 years. There have been five past times to change that, and each failed.
But we finally won. #mapoli
This victory is this coalition's victory. The @RaiseUpMA coalition, the union members, local businesses, teachers, the organizers, the campaign team, the volunteers, everyone who worked on this campaign and was part of this team. This victory is all of ours.
TWO HOURS.
Make calls for Question 1 to get out the vote IN THE FINAL TWO HOURS of this campaign. mobilize.us/fairshareamendme…
Less than two hours to go! We’re in Roxbury for the final push for @FairShareMA and @yesonfourma! #mapoli
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Grateful for all the incredible people who have fought so hard for so long on @FairShareMA & @yesonfourma.
Our communities are worthy of deep investments in public education & infrastructure.
And our roads are safer when immigrants don’t have to live in fear.
We all win. – at Boston, MA
Thank you @Ruthzee @LizForBoston and @AyannaPressley for your fierce advocacy for @yesonfourma and @FairShareMA.
Like @AyannaPressley said: Change can't wait! Let's make it happen.
Get in line to cast your votes before 8pm, Massachusetts!
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If anyone wants to make an Election Day impact, my personal favorite GOTV activity is phone-banking. Best way to calm pre-results nerves and know you're making an impact turning out every last vote. Phonebank for @FairShareMA this afternoon: mobilize.us/fairshareamendme…
Since you all seem to like flowcharts, here’s one more before the polls close.
If anyone you know hasn’t voted yet, send them this guide to voting YES on 1.
ALT A pale blue flowchart with white boxes of text. Title: are you voting Yes on Question 1? Do you think the quality of MA roads could improve? (arrow) Yes. Do you want more reliable, functional public transportation across MA? (arrow) Yes. Do you support better public schools and more accessible education? (arrow) Yes. Dark blue box with yellow text that reads: Then vote YES on Question 1!
Vote YES today then:
1. Head to a canvass near you & talk to your neighbors about getting to the polls to vote YES on 1: fairma.us/gotv
2. Text 10 of your friends, family, colleagues, pet sitters, etc to make sure they vote YES today.
3. Win Question 1, make history.
Look at this incredible squad in Somerville for the first shift of ALL DAY talking to voters and making sure they get to the polls to vote YES ON 1. Want to be part of a winning team? It’s exactly the right time to join it. Help get out the vote and WIN: fairma.us/gotv
ALT Big group of smiling canvassers in front of a house in Somerville, holding signs that say YES ON 1 and YES ON 4.