Deaton: Voters Denied a Vote on Tax Relief - My Affordability Agenda Just Got More Urgent
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June 18, 2026
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Deaton: Voters Denied a Vote on Tax Relief
- My Affordability Agenda Just Got More Urgent
BOSTON - The MA Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a proposed income tax cut, which was backed by 65% of voters in a recent Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll, will not appear on the November ballot. The reason: Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office wrote a misleading summary of the measure.
John Deaton, Presumptive Republican Nominee for U.S. Senate, issued the following statement:
“Two-thirds of MA voters wanted a vote on lowering their taxes. But they now won’t get one - not because the idea failed - but because the people running our state government failed to do their job. That’s what one-party rule looks like: every lever of power held by the same political machine, and ordinary people pay the price.
“This makes my plans to lower energy costs, expand housing, and bring transparency to healthcare pricing more urgent, not less. If Beacon Hill won’t even let voters decide on tax relief, we need every other tool on the table to make life affordable here. Senator Markey has spent 53 years inside this system. I’ve spent my career fighting institutions like it on behalf of working people and that’s exactly the fight MA needs in the Senate.”
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