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It would add an estimated $1.3 billion in annual revenue for the state, according to a report published this year by the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University.

f passed, Question One...would add an estimated $1.3 billion in annual revenue for the state, according to a report published this year by the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University.

Evan Horowitz made a similar point when he said he fears that when Healey’s team takes the corner office in January, “people start asking, ‘What is the first bill you’re going to file? What is the actual top priority?’"

That [$2 billion revenue] number has been contested in previous reports, with estimates from the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University sitting around $1.3 billion.

“It’s mostly a quirk of the pandemic,” said Horowitz. “It’s a very weird economic time and laws written for normal economic times may go a little haywire.”

“I actually did some quick modeling of this and I think that, even with the millionaires tax, it’s much more likely that we return to the world where this law (almost) never matters,” Horowitz said.

Horowitz said legislative leaders should consider changing the formula attached to the 1986 law, or even suspending its implementation to avoid money going out in a “not very progressive way.”

“This was on nobody’s radar,” said Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University.

Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University, said his rough calculations indicated allowable revenues would be $38.5 billion.