Jennifer Smith, “Business groups cheer, progressives knock House axing transfer fees,” CommonWealth Beacon, June 4, 2024.

“Jonathan Cohn, policy director of Progressive Massachusetts, cited the poll in critiquing the House’s proposed bond bill. He said axing the transfer tax option was “taking tools off the table.”

“Let’s be clear: members of House leadership are being dishonest when they claim that they oppose a local option real estate transfer fee because it is a ‘piecemeal’ solution that doesn’t help every city and town,” Cohn wrote in a statement. “Such concerns were nowhere to be found during the budget process, when those very same representatives had no problem stuffing the budget full of outsized perks for their own districts.”