Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has given a constitutional OK to most of the ballot questions activists hope to put before voters next year.
One of the 28 questions moving forward is an effort to repeal the expansion of the state’s sales tax to computer and software services. Michael Widmer , president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation says it strikes at the heart of the state’s technology driven innovation economy
Questions setting nurse to patient staffing ratios, raising the minimum wage, and cutting the state’s sales tax could also make it to the ballot, if supporters can collect the signatures of more than 80,000 registered voters. Five questions were rejected including one to outlaw casino gambling in Massachusetts and one to require labels on genetically modified food.
