Protect Massachusetts' Future
Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance are Slashing Billions
WBUR, Oct. 20, 2025
The Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance are leading an effort to gut the state’s budget and drain money from education, research, and healthcare, eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs. Backed by wealthy investors and CEOs, the groups are attempting to put two questions on the November 2026 ballot that would eliminate nearly 12% of state revenue to hand out tax breaks to the rich.
Why would the leaders of business organizations and research institutions lend their good names to The Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and The Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance’s plan to slash education and healthcare funding?
Oppose the Education and Research Cuts
The November 2026 Ballot
Tax Breaks for Millionaires
The first question would cut the state’s income tax by 20%, giving millionaires massive tax breaks and creating a $5 billion deficit in the state budget. The second would create an increasingly restrictive cap on state investment that would lock Massachusetts into a worsening cycle of shrinking budgets and painful cuts.
Dramatic Reductions to State Revenue
Our Future on the Line
Together, these initiatives would force towns and cities across Massachusetts to lay off thousands of hard-working teachers, police officers, and firefighters, leaving families to pay the price for corporate greed. Hospitals, nursing homes, schools and colleges could be forced to close their doors, leaving us all worse off.
These measures would strip billions of dollars from classrooms, hospitals, and research that Massachusetts communities depend on.
Institutional Accountability
Business and Hospital Leaders Need to Oppose the Cuts
Even though these cuts would hurt education, healthcare, and research, some business and hospital leaders continue to support the MA High Tech Council by lending their institutions’ names as members. These leaders should be fighting for investments in their institutions and opposing cuts, not siding with a coalition that cares more about tax breaks for the wealthy than Massachusetts’ future.
We are urging leaders to do right by their students and staff and withdraw their membership from the Massachusetts High Technology Council.
Massachusetts Competitive Partnership Board of Directors
Ronald P. O’Hanley
Chair, MACP
Chairman & CEO
State Street Corporation
Peter D. Banko
President & CEO
Baystate Health
Roger W. Crandall
Chairman, President & CEO
Mass Mutual Financial Group
John F. Fish
Chairman & CEO
Suffolk Construction
Robert T. Hale, Jr.
President, Co-Founder, & CEO
Granite Telecommunications
Jean M. Hynes
CEO
Wellington Management
Abigail P. Johnson
Chairman, President & CEO
Fidelity Investments
Dr. Anne Klibanski
President & CEO
Mass General Brigham
Robert K. Kraft
Founder, Chairman & CEO
The Kraft Group
Brian T. Moynihan
Chair & CEO
Bank of America
Robert L. Reynolds
President & CEO
Putnam Investments
Vincent Roche
Chair & CEO
Analog Devices Inc.
Niraj Shah
CEO, Co-Chairman, & Co-Founder
Wayfair
Timothy M. Sweeney
President & CEO
Liberty Mutual
Corey E. Thomas
Chairman & CEO
Rapid7
Brooks E. Tingle
President & CEO
John Hancock
Christophe Weber
President & CEO
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company