Massachusetts teachers’ unions are suing to block residents from being able to vote on a statewide tax cut, asking the state’s supreme court to keep it off the ballot in November. Raise Up Massachusetts, a lobbying group backed by the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) and the state’s American Federation of Teachers branch, filed a lawsuit last week in which it claimed the ballot measure, which would reduce the state’s base income tax rate from 5 percent to 4 percent, is unconstitutional.

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