In January 2021, the price of regular gas was $2.38 per gallon.
Today it’s almost $4. Premium is almost $5.
The overwhelming majority of Massachusetts voters think we should suspend the gas tax until prices come back down to normal. But despite the billions of dollars in surplus taxes Massachusetts has in its reserve accounts, our legislators refuse to even consider passing meaningful gas tax relief.
Luckily, we don’t need our legislators’ permission to suspend the gas tax. In Massachusetts we have a system of direct democracy. This means we can bypass our legislators by proposing our own law to suspend the gas tax and then passing it ourselves on election day.
All we need is your signature. Once we submit 88,000 signatures of registered Massachusetts voters on the Secretary of State’s official petition, our initiative to suspend the gas tax goes on the ballot.
Please donate $2.95 to cover our cost to print and mail you a petition packet with a prepaid envelope for you to mail your signature back to us.That’s less than the price of one gallon of gas. You’ll make it back the first time you fill up after our initiative becomes law.
You just sign the petition and drop it in the mail. We do the rest.
And in November 2024, you can vote to cut your gas tax.
Your signature can change the world!
If you’re not ready to donate, please add your email address to our list so we can send you periodic updates on our progress. We promise the volume of emails you’ll be getting from us will be low, and we will never give or sell your information to anyone. Ever.
Why are we asking for $2.95?
This is not an online petition that you can “sign” by entering your name on a campaign web site like the countless solicitations you receive by email every day. According to the Massachusetts constitution, for a signature to be valid, a voter must sign the Secretary of State’s official petition in pen. Even digital signatures that are commonly used in many business transactions are not considered valid on a ballot initiative petition.
Our signature drive will be powered by small dollar donations. Really small donations. The $2.95 that we ask you to contribute is to cover what it costs us to collect and process all the signatures on your petition. This includes printing and mailing you the petition packet; postage on the prepaid business reply envelope that we provide for you to mail the signed petition back to us; postage and courier costs for us to deliver all 88,000 signed petitions to the 351 Massachusetts city and town election departments for them to be registered and counted, and then for us to retrieve them and deliver them to the Massachusetts Secretary of State.
If everyone in your household signs, we still only need one donation of $2.95 to process the entire petition sheet and all of its signatures. (In fact, $2.95 is the only amount that the big donate button is programmed to accept. If you want to give more, you’ll have to wait until after the signature drive is done. All we need now is $2.95 per household.) We’re just asking for what it costs us in printing and postage to collect, process, retrieve and submit your petition. If there is any money left over, we’ll use it to promote this signature drive on social media so we can recruit more signers.
Massachusetts can afford to give drivers a break on the gas tax
At the beginning of the 2023 fiscal year, State Treasurer Goldberg said “I don’t think people realize just how much money we have in the bank… I do believe strongly that we need to find relief for people who are really suffering from inflation and the cost of gas.” (Keller @ Large June 26, 2022)
This year alone, Massachusetts refunded nearly $3 billion dollars in excess state taxes to taxpayers. And we still have nearly $9 billion in the rainy day fund.
Well, it’s raining! Sign the petition so you can vote yourself a tax cut.
The overwhelming majority of Massachusetts voters think we should suspend the gas tax until prices come back down to normal. But despite the billions of dollars in surplus taxes Massachusetts has in its reserve accounts, our legislators refuse to even consider passing meaningful gas tax relief.
Luckily, we don’t need our legislators’ permission to suspend the gas tax. In Massachusetts we have a system of direct democracy. This means we can bypass our legislators by proposing our own law to suspend the gas tax and then passing it ourselves on election day.
All we need is your signature. Once we submit 88,000 signatures of registered Massachusetts voters on the Secretary of State’s official petition, our initiative to suspend the gas tax goes on the ballot.
Please donate $2.95 to cover our cost to print and mail you a petition packet with a prepaid envelope for you to mail it back to us.That’s less than the price of one gallon of gas. You’ll make it back the first time you fill up after our initiative becomes law.
You just sign the petition and drop it in the mail. We do the rest.
And in November 2024, you can vote to cut your gas tax.
Your signature can change the world!
If you’re not ready to donate, please add your email address to our list so we can send you periodic updates on our progress. We promise the volume of emails you’ll be getting from us will be low, and we will never give or sell your information to anyone. Ever.
Why are we asking for $2.95?
This is not an online petition that you can “sign” by entering your name on a campaign web site like the countless solicitations you receive by email every day. According to the Massachusetts constitution, for a signature to be valid, a voter must sign the Secretary of State’s official petition in pen. Even digital signatures that are commonly used in many business transactions are not considered valid on a ballot initiative petition.
Our signature drive will be powered by small dollar donations. Really small donations. The $2.95 that we ask you to contribute is to cover what it costs us to collect and process all the signatures on your petition. This includes printing and mailing you the petition packet; postage on the prepaid business reply envelope that we provide for you to mail the signed petition back to us; postage and courier costs for us to deliver all 88,000 signed petitions to the 351 Massachusetts city and town election departments for them to be registered and counted, and then for us to retrieve them and deliver them to the Massachusetts Secretary of State.
If everyone in your household signs, we still only need one donation of $2.95 to process the entire petition sheet and all of its signatures. (In fact, $2.95 is the only amount that the big donate button is programmed to accept. If you want to give more, you’ll have to wait until after the signature drive is done. All we need now is $2.95 per household.) We’re just asking for what it costs us in printing and postage to collect, process, retrieve and submit your petition. If there is any money left over, we’ll use it to promote this signature drive on social media so we can recruit more signers.
Massachusetts can afford to give drivers a break on the gas tax
At the beginning of the 2023 fiscal year, State Treasurer Goldberg said “I don’t think people realize just how much money we have in the bank… I do believe strongly that we need to find relief for people who are really suffering from inflation and the cost of gas.” (Keller @ Large June 26, 2022)
This year alone, Massachusetts refunded nearly $3 billion dollars in excess state taxes to taxpayers. And we still have nearly $9 billion in the rainy day fund.
Well, it’s raining! Sign the petition so you can vote yourself a tax cut.
In January 2021, the price of regular gas was $2.38 per gallon.
Today it’s almost $4. Premium is almost $5.
The overwhelming majority of Massachusetts voters think we should suspend the gas tax until prices come back down to normal. But despite the billions of dollars in surplus taxes Massachusetts has in its reserve accounts, our legislators refuse to even consider passing meaningful gas tax relief.
Luckily, we don’t need our legislators’ permission to suspend the gas tax. In Massachusetts we have a system of direct democracy. This means we can bypass our legislators by proposing our own law to suspend the gas tax and then passing it ourselves on election day.
All we need is your signature. Once we submit 88,000 signatures of registered Massachusetts voters on the Secretary of State’s official petition, our initiative to suspend the gas tax goes on the ballot.
Please donate $2.95 to cover our cost to print and mail you a petition packet with a prepaid envelope for you to mail it back to us. That’s less than the price of one gallon of gas. You’ll make it back the first time you fill up after our initiative becomes law.
You just sign the petition and drop it in the mail. We do the rest.
And in November 2024, you can vote to cut your gas tax.
Your signature can change the world!
If you’re not ready to donate, please add your email address to our list so we can send you periodic updates on our progress. We promise the volume of emails you’ll be getting from us will be low, and we will never give or sell your information to anyone. Ever.
Why are we asking for $2.95?
This is not an online petition that you can “sign” by entering your name on a campaign web site like the countless solicitations you receive by email every day. According to the Massachusetts constitution, for a signature to be valid, a voter must sign the Secretary of State’s official petition in pen. Even digital signatures that are commonly used in many business transactions are not considered valid on a ballot initiative petition.
Our signature drive will be powered by small dollar donations. Really small donations. The $2.95 that we ask you to contribute is to cover what it costs us to collect and process all the signatures on your petition. This includes printing and mailing you the petition packet; postage on the prepaid business reply envelope that we provide for you to mail the signed petition back to us; postage and courier costs for us to deliver all 88,000 signed petitions to the 351 Massachusetts city and town election departments for them to be registered and counted, and then for us to retrieve them and deliver them to the Massachusetts Secretary of State.
If everyone in your household signs, we still only need one donation of $2.95 to process the entire petition sheet and all of its signatures. (In fact, $2.95 is the only amount that the big donate button is programmed to accept. If you want to give more, you’ll have to wait until after the signature drive is done. All we need now is $2.95 per household.) We’re just asking for what it costs us in printing and postage to collect, process, retrieve and submit your petition. If there is any money left over, we’ll use it to promote this signature drive on social media so we can recruit more signers.
Massachusetts can afford to give drivers a break on the gas tax
At the beginning of the 2023 fiscal year, State Treasurer Goldberg said “I don’t think people realize just how much money we have in the bank… I do believe strongly that we need to find relief for people who are really suffering from inflation and the cost of gas.” (Keller @ Large June 26, 2022)
This year alone, Massachusetts refunded nearly $3 billion dollars in excess state taxes to taxpayers. And we still have nearly $9 billion in the rainy day fund.
Well, it’s raining!
Sign the petition so you can vote yourself a tax cut.
