With tonight’s final passage of the state Senate’s FY2026 budget, which passed 38-2, the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance is calling out senators for greenlighting the largest budget in state history while continuing to ignore the state’s deepening affordability crisis. 

The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance released the following statement regarding Governor Maura Healey’s newly unveiled “Energy Affordability, Independence, and Innovation Act,” which is less a solution to Massachusetts’ energy crisis and more a tacit admission that Beacon Hill’s climate mandates have been driving up rates all along.

The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance issued the following statement today in response to a new Tax Foundation analysis debunking the Institute for Policy Studies’ (IPS) recent claim that higher state taxes on high earners lead to increased wealth and economic growth.