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Massachusetts Legislature strips Healey's gas tax suspension from budget

Opposed the gas tax suspension, calling it a 'gimmick' whose 'numbers just don't add up'

Massachusetts drivers will keep paying the state's 24-cent-per-gallon gas tax. The House voted 121-30 Wednesday to reject a Republican amendment that would have restored Gov. Maura Healey's two-month suspension, and the $2.35 billion supplemental budget moved ahead without it.

Updated Oct 22

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What I would call a gimmick, short-term kind of conversation ... that may not have any real savings at the end of the day.

from Massachusetts Legislature strips Healey's gas tax suspension from budget · Updated Oct 22

The numbers just don't add up for this proposal to be something that we feel we should be supporting.

from Massachusetts Legislature strips Healey's gas tax suspension from budget · Updated Oct 22