Protect Massachusetts' Future
Massachusetts High Technology Council Slashes Billions
WBUR, Oct. 20, 2025
The Massachusetts High Technology Council is leading an effort to gut the state’s budget and drain money from schools, healthcare, and other public services. Backed by wealthy investors and CEOs, the group has qualified two questions for the November 2026 ballot that would eliminate nearly 12% of state revenue to hand out tax breaks to the rich.
Why would university leaders lend their good names to the High Tech Council’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 income tax by 20%, giving millionaires massive 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.
These measures would strip billions of dollars from classrooms, hospitals, and research that Massachusetts communities depend on.
Institutional Accountability
University and Hospital Leaders Need to Oppose the Cuts
Even though these cuts would hurt education and research, some university 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.