Some of the same interest groups that successfully pushed for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and other concessions to organized labor in Massachusetts are now looking to increase taxes on businesses in the state to pay for transportation improvements.
Raise Up Massachusetts, which supports a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would allow taxing people with incomes of $1 million or more at a significantly higher rate than other people, is calling for a tiered tax structure for businesses, so that businesses that make more money would pay taxes at a higher rate than those that don't.
A further-left challenger of U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch says his past doubts about impeaching President Donald Trump should disqualify him from chairing the House committee that would coordinate that process.
Brianna Wu, who lost to Lynch in 2018 but is challenging him again, released a video Thursday showing clips from Lynch pouring cold water on impeachment.
