The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance today criticized Governor Maura Healey’s sweeping local option tax hike proposal, which will be heard today at 10:00 a.m. at the State House before the Joint Committee on Revenue. The bill would give cities and towns across Massachusetts broad new authority to raise taxes on residents and small businesses.

The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance today criticized the latest push by organized labor groups to impose an economy killing measure on the state, this time as they begin collecting signatures for government-mandated rent control across the Commonwealth.