Issue Position: Holding the line on Taxes

Issue Position

On Beacon Hill, more taxes never seem to be enough. Even in the midst of a nation-high unemployment rate and a global pandemic, various tax increase proposals are being strongly considered in the legislature. Now is not the time to take more money from the hard working families who can least afford it.

In the last 10 years, Beacon Hill Democrats have passed more than 10 tax increases on the taxpayers of Massachusetts and keep trying for more. Most recently, Representative Lombardo opposed a Massachusetts gas tax increase and strongly opposed the regional TCI which will add an additional .17 cents to gas prices and send a significant amount of those taxes out of state.

Included in the same tax package was an increase in the gas tax and an even more alarming "automatic increase" each year without a vote of the Legislature. Marc took to the House floor and branded the measure the "to Infinity and Beyond tax." Representative Lombardo joined in the successful ballot initiative effort to repeal the automatic increase on the gas tax.

Representative Lombardo supports reducing the meals, sales, and income tax to 5%.

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